Open AccessOUR EXPERIENCE IN THE SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH RECTAL NEOPLASTIC DISEASE
Author(s) -
Alina Cristina Tinca,
R Palade,
Daniel Ion,
Adriana Eleica,
Alexandra Bolocan,
Oana Adelina Ionescu,
Octavian Andronic
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of surgical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2457-5364
pISSN - 2360-3038
DOI - 10.33695/jss.v3i2.51
Subject(s) - medicine , colorectal cancer , retrospective cohort study , general surgery , disease , observational study , stage (stratigraphy) , surgical pathology , cancer , surgery , pathology , paleontology , biology
Colorectal cancer is one of the most commonly incriminated neoplastic pathologies and it has afairly high mortality rate. Although the therapeutic arsenal of rectal cancer has steadily improvedthrough the acquisition of biology, technology and pharmacology, the central role of surgicaltechnique is widely recognized in obtaining local control, on the one hand and a good quality of lifeof operated patient on the other hand. This article is a retrospective analysis of surgical proceduresfor rectal neoplasia conducted in order to determine to what extent technological development andcontinuous improvement of surgical techniques have influenced the evolution of patientmanagement with this pathology. This study was retrospective, observational, descriptive, single-center and it was held in the Department of General Surgery and Emergency III of the UniversityEmergency Hospital Bucharest during 1 January 2007 - March 31, 2016 and included a total of127 patients.