Partial sacrectomy for en bloc excision of rectal cancer with posterior fixation.
A procedure for resection of the lower sacrum in patients with adenocarcinoma of the rectum is described. The indication for this procedure is posterior fixation of a tumor to sacral segments three, four, or five or to the coccyx. Through a posterior incision, the sacrum below S2 is removed with no appreciable increase in morbidity of the abdominoperineal resection. Six patients treated to date have had good results using this approach.
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D012007:Rectum / Q000601:surgery; D012447:Sacrum / Q000601:surgery*