title: Treatment of sessile villous and tubulovillous adenomas of the rectum: experience of St. Mark's Hospital. 1963-1972.
abstract: Between 1963 and 1972, 121 new patients were treated at St. Mark's Hospital for a sessile villous or tubulovillous adenoma of the rectum. Thirty patients (25 per cent) were found to have simultaneous neoplastic lesions in the large intestine. Sphincter-preserving operations were performed whenever possible, and the various methods of treatment used are analyzed. Fourteen patients (11.6 per cent) had postoperative complications, and three patients died. Twenty-six patients are know to have had further benign tumor at the same site during the follow-up period.
mesh_terms: D000236:Adenoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004564:Electrocoagulation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008026:Ligation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D012007:Rectum / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*