Small rectal cancers, treatment and late results
Knoch, H.G.
Archiv für Geschwulstforschung 53(5): 479-484
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-911X PMID: 6651475 Document Number: 199535
After a short survey of the literature concerned, it is pointed out that early findings of rectal carcinoma (T1 or Dukes' disease A orCSI + II according to Mason) can be removed locally in the unaffected tissue under observation of the strictest indication by transanal surgery or by posterior rectomy. In this procedure the surgical mortality is 0 per cent, the ten-year-survival can go up to 90 per cent. The own material described comprises 97 patients with an average age of 64.5 years.