Sphincter-saving proctectomy for rectal cancer with transanal tube NO COIL and without ostoma: clinical outcomes, cost effectiveness and quality of life in elderly.

CONCLUSIONS: Although advanced age is associated with higher morbidity and mortality, in our experience, itself is not a contraindication for surgical sphincter-saving proctetomy in rectal cancer patients. The absence of a stoma improve also, in both groups, the cost-effectiveness and the patients quality of life: psychological morbidity, sexuality, levels of anxiety and depression, body image. PMID: 29658682 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Minerva Chirurgica - Category: Surgery Tags: Minerva Chir Source Type: research