Results of total mesorectal excision and transanal endoscopic microsurgery for rectal adenocarcinoma with submucosal invasion.

Objective: To analyze early and long-term outcomes after total mesorectal excision (TME) and transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM) in patients with T1 rectal cancer.

Material And Methods: A retrospective non-randomized comparative study included 2 groups of patients: group 1 - total mesorectal excision, group 2 - transanal endoscopic microsurgery. In the second group, total mesorectal excision was proposed for patients with tumor invasion depth pT1sm3 and/or lymphovascular invasion and/or low differentiation.

[Turcot syndrome and Gardner's syndrome in a female patient with familial colon adenomatosis. A case report and literature review].

Turcot syndrome is a rare hereditary syndrome characterized by a combination of brain tumors and colorectal cancer. According to the literature, about 150 such cases have been reported. This article presents a rare clinical case and a literature review.

Short-term outcomes of a multicentre randomized clinical trial comparing D2 versus D3 lymph node dissection for colonic cancer (COLD trial).

Background: It remains unclear whether extended lymphadenectomy provides oncological advantages in colorectal cancer. This multicentre RCT aimed to address this issue.

Methods: Patients with resectable primary colonic cancer were enrolled in four hospitals registered in the COLD trial, and randomized to D2 or D3 dissection in a 1 : 1 ratio.

[Is implantation metastasis of colorectal cancer to the kidney possible?].

Kidney metastasis in colorectal cancer are rare. A number of publications dedicated to this topic is quite limited. In this article a rare observation of metastasis of colorectal cancer to the kidney is described.

[Risk factors of regional lymph node metastases in pT1 colorectal cancer].

Aim: To identify risk factors of lymph node metastases in patients with pT1 rectal cancer.

Material And Methods: There were 43 patients aged 62.3±11.

Liver blood supply after a modified Appleby procedure in classical and aberrant arterial anatomy.

Reported here are two cases of a modified Appleby operation for borderline resectable ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreatic body, in one of which a R0 distal resection was attended to by excision, not only of the celiac axis, but also of the common and left hepatic arteries in the presence of arterial anatomic variation Michels, type VIIIb. The possibility and avenues of the maintenance of the blood supply to the left hepatic lobe after surgical aggression of this kind are demonstrated employing computed tomography (CT) and 3-D CT angiography. Furthermore, both cases highlight all important worrisome aspects of pancreatic cancer resectability prediction.