title: [Comparative clinico-evolutive and therapeutic aspects in cancer of the right and left colon].
abstract: The paper reports on the casuistics of the colon cancer in the Clinic of Surgery of the "Griviţa" Clinical Hospital, for 21 years (1966-1986) with emphasis on the situs peculiarities on the right and left colon. Whereas the left colon cancer (LCC) started in 32% of cases with subocclusive and occlusive syndromes having special implications on the treatment and prognosis, in the right colon cancer (RCC) only in 3.5% of cases the diagnosis was established in the stage of subocclusive syndrome. During surgery the metastatic adenopathy was met in 57% in LCC and only in 37% in RCC, and the hepatic metastases in 17.7% in LCC and in 10.9% in the RCC cases. The immediate postsurgery mortality was present in 12% of the LCC cases and in only 9.3% of the RCC cases. In the last 10 years of the period studied, the patients were periodically readmitted into the hospital, reinvestigated, and monochemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil was applied in sequential cures. In this last period, the survival at 5 years was of 25 (45.4%) in the 55 patients operated for RCC and of 41 (37.6%) in the 109 patients operated for LCC.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Constantinoiu
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Papahagi
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Peţa
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Niculescu
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Agache
authors.forename: I N
authors.initials: IN
authors.lastname: Mateş
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003082:Colectomy / Q000379:methods; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D003125:Colostomy / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology
vernacular_title: Aspecte comparative clinico-evolutive şi terapeutice în cancerul de colon drept şi stîng.