title: [Current trends in the treatment of rectal carcinoma].
abstract: Authors report their personal experience about 336 cases of curative surgery for rectal cancer. They describe technical surgical details universally accepted in Literature such as sharp total mesorectal excision, the extension of lymphadenectomy with high ligature of inferior mesenteritis artery while pelvic lymphadenectomy seems to be unuseful and burdened by high morbidity; finally they underline advantages offered by a colic pouch above all for lower incidence of anastomotic leakages. As adjuvant therapy is concerned, our actual tendency is a preoperative radiochemiotherapy of which we are still evaluating long-term results. Finally we analyzed correlations between cellular genetics and colo-rectal cancer.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Clinica Chirurgica Generale e Terapia Chirurgica Università degli Studi di Trieste.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Leggeri
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Balani
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Turoldo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Scaramucci
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Braini
mesh_terms: D013505:Digestive System Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D015996:Survival Rate
vernacular_title: Attuali orientamenti in tema di trattamento del carcinoma del retto.