Clinicopathological Outcomes in Patients With Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer Undergoing Preoperative Short- Long-course Chemoradiotherapy With Delayed Surgery.

Background/aim: We aimed to compare the clinicopathological outcomes in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer after short- or long-course concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) followed by delayed surgery.

Patients And Methods: The records of 94 patients with cT3-4N0-2M0 rectal cancer who received CCRT between 2010 and 2017 were reviewed. Short-course radiotherapy (RT) was delivered with a median total dose of 25 Gy in five fractions (n=27), and long-course RT was delivered with a median total dose of 50.

Clinical outcomes of surgical management for recurrent rectal prolapse: a multicenter retrospective study.

Purpose: There are few reports on outcomes following surgical repair of recurrent rectal prolapse. The purpose of this study was to examine surgical outcomes for recurrent rectal prolapse.

Methods: We conducted a multicenter retrospective study of patients who underwent surgery for recurrent rectal prolapse.

Neurofibroma of the Colon: A Diagnostic Mimicker of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor.

Gastrointestinal neurofibroma usually develops as diffuse gastrointestinal involvement in neurofibromatosis type 1 patients. Only 4 cases of sporadic colonic neurofibroma in a patient without neurofibromatosis type 1 have been reported in the English literature. A 26-year-old female patient underwent colonoscopy, and a 4-cm-sized polypoid mass was identified in the sigmoid colon.

Inguinal hernia developed after radical retropubic surgery for prostate cancer.

Purpose: In this retrospective study, we aimed to compare the clinical characteristics of inguinal hernia developed after radical retropubic surgery for prostate cancer to the hernia without previous radical prostatectomy.

Methods: Twenty-three patients (group A) who had radical retropubic surgery for prostate cancer underwent laparoscopic or open tension-free inguinal hernia repair from March 2007 to February 2011. Nine hundred and forty patients (group B) without previous radical retropubic surgery received laparoscopic or tension-free open hernia operation.

Comparison of Long-term Clinical Outcomes according to the Change in the Rectocele Depth between Transanal and Transvaginal Repairs for a Symptomatic Rectocele.

Purpose: This study was aimed to compare the results of a transanal repair with those of a transvaginal levatorplasty and to determine the long-term clinical outcomes according to the change in the depth of the rectocele after the procedure.

Methods: Of 50 women who underwent a rectocele repair from March 2005 to February 2007, 26 women (group A) received a transanal repair, and 24 (group B) received a transvaginal repair with or without levatorplasty. At 12 months after the procedures, 45 (group A/B, 22/23 women) among the 50 women completed physiologic studies, including anal manometry and defecography, and clinical-outcome measurements.

Long-term Outcomes of Laparoscopic Surgery for Colorectal Cancer.

Purpose: The long-term results of a laparoscopic resection for colorectal cancer have been reported in several studies, but reports on the results of laparoscopic surgery for rectal cancer are limited. We investigated the long-term outcomes, including the five-year overall survival, disease-free survival and recurrence rate, after a laparoscopic resection for colorectal cancer.

Methods: Using prospectively collected data on 303 patients with colorectal cancer who underwent a laparoscopic resection between January 2001, and December 2003, we analyzed sex, age, stage, complications, hospital stay, mean operation time and blood loss.

Anastomotic leakage after laparoscopic protectomy can be managed by a minimally invasive approach.

Purpose: This study was designed to identify the clinical features of anastomotic leakage after laparoscopic resection of rectal cancer and to evaluate the outcomes of laparoscopic management for this problem.

Methods: Prospectively collected data were obtained from 307 patients with rectal cancer who underwent laparoscopic proctectomy and primary anastomosis. Age, sex, tumor location, tumor stage, body mass index, comorbidities, ileostomy, conversion, intraoperative blood loss, operative time, previous abdominal operation, and hospital stay were analyzed for patients with or without anastomotic leakage.