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Dis Colon Rectum
April 2024
Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
Colorectal Dis
June 2023
The Manchester Advanced Pelvic Malignancy Team, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK.
Front Surg
April 2022
Department of Colorectal Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou, China.
Background: Chronic radiation proctopathy (CRP) is a common complication after radiation therapy for pelvic malignancies. Compared with diversion surgery, resection surgery removes the damaged tissue completely to avoid the risks of recurrence and improve patients' outcome. Hence, resection surgery could be an optimal surgical approach when CRP is complicated by late complications.
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March 2022
Department of Colorectal Surgery, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore City, Singapore.
Dis Colon Rectum
February 2021
Department of Abdominal Surgery, University Hospitals Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium.
Introduction: Rectourethral fistula is an uncommon pathology, usually iatrogenic, occurring as a complication of surgical or ablative treatments for prostate or rectal cancer. Among other surgical techniques, restorative ultralow rectal anterior resection may be an option of last resort to achieve fistula closure avoiding the need for a permanent stoma. This article aims to describe a transanal minimally invasive-assisted Turnbull-Cutait technique for radiated rectourethral fistulas with a complementary video.
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