Mesorectal resection in oncologic surgery
Cancrini, A.; Mongardini, M.; Bellotti, C.; Boemi, L.; Benedetti, F.; Tarroni, D.; Chiarini, S.
Il Giornale di Chirurgia 10(1-2): 51-54
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0391-9005 PMID: 2518531 Document Number: 331982
A surgical technique to "en bloc" resect the mesorectum while performing an anterior resection is here described. The procedure aims at preserving those nerves whose injury is responsible for a series of neurological sequalae, which affect the patient's quality of life. Fifteen dissections were carried out in order to demonstrate the possibility to perform an accurate mesorectal lymphadenectomy while preserving, in most cases, the nervi erigentes and, in some cases, the hypogastric plexus.