The use of laparoscopy for locally advanced rectal cancer.

CONCLUSIONS: Locally advanced rectal cancers require multidisciplinary management including neoadjuvant chemo-radiotherapy and surgery. Preoperative re-staging may be useful to plan the best surgical procedure. Minimally invasive surgery, especially laparoscopy, can provide adequate outcomes in selected patients with locally advanced rectal cancer with the advantage of faster recovery compared to open surgery. However, the overall evidence is poor, and further studies are needed to elucidate the role of minimally invasive surgery for cT4 rectal cancer. PMID: 29243454 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Minerva Chirurgica - Category: Surgery Tags: Minerva Chir Source Type: research