title: [Surgical treatment of acute obstructing colorectal cancer: a report of 297 cases].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate surgical treatment of obstructing colorectal cancer.
  
  
  METHODS
  From July 1993 to July 2003, clinical data of 297 cases undergoing emergency operation for obstructing colorectal cancer were analyzed retrospectively. There were 103 cases with right-sided lesion and 194 cases with left- sided lesion.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All patients received emergency operation. Stage i tumor resection and anastomosis were performed in 126 patients including 98 cases with right- sided lesion and 28 with left- sided lesion, total or subtotal colectomy in 108,Hartmann operation in 36,Dixon operation in 9, ileocolic anastomosis in 11,and colostomy in 7 cases. Postoperative complications occurred in 53 cases (17.8% ) including incision infection, intraperitoneal infection and intestinal fistula. There were 17 perioperative deaths. Two hundred and eighty cases healed (94.3% ).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Stage i tumor resection and anastomosis and total or subtotal colectomy are feasible and safe surgical procedures for obstructing colorectal cancers.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, The First Clinical College, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150001, China.
authors.forename: Lin-feng
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Lian-xin
authors.initials: LX
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Dong-bo
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.forename: Wei-hui
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Hong-chi
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Jiang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical; D003082:Colectomy; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies