Electrocoagulation of rectal cancer
作者:
Eugene Hughes,
Malcolm Veidenheimer,
Marvin Corman,
John Coller,
期刊:
Diseases of the Colon & Rectum
(OVID Available online 1982)
卷期:
Volume 25,
issue 3
页码: 215-218
ISSN:0012-3706
年代: 1982
出版商: OVID
关键词: Cancer, rectal;Electrocoagulation;Dukes' lesions
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
&NA;Electrocoagulation is an effective treatment modality for localized cancer of the distal rectum. Proper selection remains the key to successful treatment. Of potentially curable patients with cancer of the rectum followed up for a median of five years, 69 per cent had no evidence of cancer at the end of the study period. Gross tumor morphology defined two distinct groups with regard to outcome after electrocoagulation. Ninety‐two per cent of patients with polypoid/exophytic tumors as compared to 33 per cent of patients with ulcerative lesions had successful treatment. Based on these results, the authors believe that lesions that are exophytic represent early cancers with a low incidence of nodal spread and, as such, can be treated by electrocoagulation with confidence. As a palliative measure, the authors found electrocoagulation to yield equivocal results.
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