Blood dissemination of colonic epithelial cells during no-touch surgery for rectosigmoid cancer.
No-touch surgery is used to minimise spread of malignant cells during surgery for colorectal cancer. We looked for cell dissemination in mesenteric blood during no-touch surgery and showed such spillage in 12.5% of patients.
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D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000601:surgery*; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008642:Mesenteric Veins; D009366:Neoplasm Seeding; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012307:Risk Factors; D012811:Sigmoid Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*