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  • Title: [Multi-visceral resection in colorectal carcinoma].
    Author: Gebhardt C.
    Journal: Langenbecks Arch Chir Suppl Kongressbd; 1998; 115():327-30. PubMed ID: 9931634.
    Abstract:
    Report of 173 patients with colorectal carcinoma, who were submitted to a multivisceral resection. After curative operation a histologically proven infiltration of neighbouring organs could be seen in 55% of cases, whereas in the other patients only inflammatory adhesions were identified. Postoperative surgical complications were observed in 11.4% and were identical with the level of complications in conventionally operated patients. Also comparable were the postoperative mortality rates (3.6%/3.4%). The 5-year survival rate of all multiviscerally resected patients was 42%, after curative resection 51%. The UICC-stage related survival rates were 58% and 43% in stage II and III, versus 60% and 41% after conventional resection. The identical operative risk and identical survival rates justify the application of multivisceral resection in the treatment of colorectal carcinoma.
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