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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Rectal Cancer — Natural History of the Disease
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The Anatomical Basis for Rectal Cancer Surgery
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Tumour Spread As a Basis for Rectal Cancer Surgery
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Surgical Technique — Options
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About this book
Rectal cancer is a major killer. Most of those dying after curative surgery suffer from recurrent disease in the pelvis. Local recurrence is also the only site of failure in up to 50% of patients. A disturbing fact is that the local recurrence rate shows considerably surgeon-related variances. There is now strong evidence that optimizing surgical technique by adopting the principle of total mesorectal excision (TME) will reduce local failure rate, increase the use of sphincter-saving operations, and improve functional results. Surgeons applying this surgical principle will consistently achieve similarly low recurrence rates.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rectal Cancer Surgery
Book Subtitle: Optimisation — Standardisation — Documentation
Editors: Odd Søreide, Jarle Norstein
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60514-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1997
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-64438-2Published: 16 September 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-60514-7Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 457