Laparoscopic Surgery of Rectal Cancer and Ileostomy. Technological Progress in Relation to New Minimally Invasive Treatment Methods and the Incidence of Complications.
Laparoscopic Surgery of Rectal Cancer and Ileostomy. Technological Progress in Relation to New Minimally Invasive Treatment Methods and the Incidence of Complications.
Elective diverting ileostomy may reduce consequences of anastomotic failure in laparoscopic TME. Aiming to evaluate the effectiveness of elective diverting ileostomy, its impact on the incidence and clinical behavior of anastomotic leakage and the complications related to its presence and take down were analyzed.
From a prospective collected database, data regarding patients who underwent to laparoscopic TME, with (Group 1) or without (Group 2) elective diverting ileostomy for rectal cancer from 2012 to 2017 at University Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, have been retrospectively analyzed.
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