title: Combined multistep approach in a locally advanced rectal cancer with sacral invasion: case report.
abstract: Composite pelvic resection with sacrectomy may provide good local control in case of locally advanced rectal cancer infiltrating the sacral bone. A combined multidisciplinary approach including chemotherapy and radiotherapy is here presented for a case of rectal tumor invading the sacrum.
authors.affiliation: Colorectal Cancer Cooperative Team, Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Napoli.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Delrio
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fazioli
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Di Marzo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Avallone
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Elmo
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pecori
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ravo
authors.forename: D N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Idà
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bianchi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cremona
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: De Rosa
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Parisi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D012447:Sacrum