Characteristic findings on defecography according to reconstruction method and defecatory disorder following sphincter-saving surgery for rectal cancer.

Background And Aims: This study used postoperative defecography to characterize morphological features of defecatory disorders in patients following rectal resection. We also evaluated differences in dynamic defecatory condition depending on reconstruction methods for sphincter-saving surgery.

Materials And Methods: Subjects comprised 62 patients (male/female, 41/21; mean age, 61 years) who underwent defecography after sphincter-saving surgery for rectal cancer.

Early results of intersphincteric resection for patients with very low rectal cancer: an active approach to avoid a permanent colostomy.

Purpose: Abdominoperineal resection has been the standard surgery for very low rectal cancer located within 5 cm of the anal verge. However, permanent colostomy exerts serious limitations on quality of life. The present study aimed to investigate curability and functional results of intersphincteric resection and additional partial external sphincteric resection for carcinoma of the anorectal junction.

Advanced esophageal cancer with esophago-bronchial fistula successfully treated by chemoradiation therapy with additional endoscopic resection: a case report.

Chemoradiation is potentially curative for esophageal cancer in various stages, but local failure is a major problem. The present case was a 49-year-old male diagnosed with advanced esophageal cancer with an esophago-bronchial fistula and lymph node metastasis. Histological diagnosis by biopsy was adenosquamous cell carcinoma.