LAPAROSCOPIC RESECTION FOR COLON CARCINOM AS

Authors
PISTORIUS G KREISSLERHAAG D LINDEMANN W HILDEBRANDT U
Citation
G. Pistorius et al., LAPAROSCOPIC RESECTION FOR COLON CARCINOM AS, Langenbecks Archiv fur Chirurgie, 1996, pp. 580-583
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery
Journal title
Langenbecks Archiv fur Chirurgie → ACNP
ISSN journal
00238236
Year of publication
1996
Supplement
2
Pages
580 - 583
Database
ISI
SICI code
0023-8236(1996):<580:LRFCCA>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
Since 1992 laparoscopic-assisted resections have been performed in 43 patients with tumors of the right or left colon. Excluding one patient with anastomotic leak there were no harvest complications. After a me an follow-up of 25 months 26/39 patients are living without tumor prog ress or recurrence, none of the 39 patients have abdominal wall metast ases as yet; nine patients died due to tumor progress.