Mortality and anastomotic leakage after anterior resection for rectal cancer.

Background/aims: The aim of the study was to analyze the mortality and symptomatic anastomotic leak following stapled anastomosis after anterior resection for rectal cancer.

Methodology: We analyzed retrospectively 161 patients subjected to elective anterior resection of the rectum. There were 102 (63.

[Iliac vessels malformations as a cause of gluteal varices].

Gluteal varices are caused by different malformations (congenital or other disorders) within pelvic vessels. They are usually congenital, rarely acquired disorders. The rarity of incidence, diagnostic difficulties and sometimes ineffective methods of treatment made the authors of this article to present a case of 51-year-old patient with hemorrhoids with concomitant left gluteal varices caused by internal iliac artery-vein fistula.

[Metastasis to brain from rectal cancer as the first manifestation of neoplasmatic disease].

Cerebral metastases from colorectal cancer are uncommon. They are usually a late manifestation of the neoplasmatic disease. The symptoms aren't always typical.