Many cancers of the rectum are discovered which are too low for the standard abdominal resection and anastomosis; therefore an abdominal perineal resection and colostomy are performed. Three new techniques are described which will allow a number of these patients to have their low rectal tumors resected with primary anastomosis, so that a colostomy is avoided. These are very grateful patients.
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