title: [Laparoscopic colorectomy for colorectal cancer].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the result of laparoscopic colorectomy in treatment of colorectal cancer.
  
  
  METHODS
  Laparoscopic colorectal surgery was performed in 78 patients with colorectal cancer. Operative procedures, complications and postoperative recovery were studied.
  
  
  RESULTS
  None of the 78 patients died of laparoscopic colorectal surgery or complications. Eleven patients died from tumor metastasis and 2 from other causes. Twenty-one, 17, 8 patients for 1, 3, 5 years survived respectively. In nine patients who had received operation less than 1 year, no tumor recurrence or metastasis was found except in 1 patient 11 months after operation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Laparoscopic colorectal cancer resection is essential to colectomy for colon and rectum cancer when indicated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Minimal Invasive Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: Baoxian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Zhimian
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Guotai
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Zhaoxu
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Zhenxian
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhao
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003082:Colectomy / Q000379:methods*; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D012007:Rectum / Q000601:surgery*