MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY-RATES IN SURGICAL -TREATMENT OF COLORECTAL-CANCER

Morbidity and mortality of various surgical therapy protocols for larg e bowel carcinoma were analysed in 1270 patients and compared to data from other working groups. We found a decline of mortality rates, espe cially after abdomino-perineal rectum extirpation. The infection rate of the sacral wound is. however, still as high as it used to be. The a nastomotic insufficiency rate after anterior rectum resection is depen ding on location of the anastomoses, amounting to about 7-8 % after ma nual suture as well as after stapled anastomosis. In colon surgery gen eral complications are more frequent than surgical ones.