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Neoadjuvant therapy and surgery in rectal adenocarcinoma: analysis of patients with complete tumor remission

INTRODUCTION: the standard treatment for locally advanced extra-peritoneal rectal adenocarcinoma, consists of neoadjuvant treatment with radiotherapy and chemotherapy followed by total mesorectal excision. OBJECTIVE: evaluate, retrospectively, the patients submitted to neoadjuvant therapy and surgery tha...

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma as a cause of acute intestinal obstruction/perforation in patients with adenocarcinoma of the sigmoidcolon: a case report

Report of a rare case of an 83-year-old patient with lymphoma of the terminal ileum causing obstructive/perforated acute abdomen synchronous with sigmoid colon adenocarcinoma and review of literature data about small bowel malignancies, particularly lymphomas. It seems to correspond to a rare disease (2%...

Sigmoidoanal intussusception with exteriorization of sigmoid adenocarcinoma

The intestinal intussusception is a rare disease in adults, and is mostly caused by malignant neoplasm. Symptoms are usually nonspecific and chronic, and in most cases suggesting intestinal obstruction. Treatment consists of removing the malignant tumor. This article reports the case of a patient with he...

Proctosigmoidectomía perineal, sacrofijación y plastia de elevadores en prolapso senil
Perineal proctosigmoidectomy, sacrofixation and plasty of elevators in senile prolapse

Rev. chil. cir; 54 (2), 2002
Se presenta la técnia quirúrgica y los resultados obtenidos en un grupo seleccionado de pacientes con prolapso rectal. Se describe la técnica utilizada en 7 pacientes con edad promedio de 76 años y patología asociada que presentaron prolapso rectal completo con incontinencia anal grave, intervenidos...

Consideraciones anatómicas sobre la anastomosis arterial recto-sigmoídea
Anatomical considerations of the recto-sigmoid arterial anastomosis

Rev. chil. anat; 18 (2), 2000
El conocimiento de la circulación colateral abdominal es importante en las cirugías de la región. Con la finalidad de esclarecer la capacidad de flujos de la anastomosis recto-sigmoídea, su localización y las eventuales variaciones anatómicas, estudiamos las arterias componentes de ella en 43 cadá...

Treatment of severe actinic rectitis

Säo Paulo med. j; 116 (1), 1998
Background: The authors report the treatment of three female patients with severe actinic rectitis, with stenosis of perforation, submitted to anterior proctosigmoidectomy and transanal coloanal anastomosis. methods: In all cases surgery consisted of total proctosigmoidectomy, mucosectomy of the anal can...