Introduction

In the nearly 10 years since Seminars in Colon and Rectal Surgery last covered the topic of local excision, there has been an explosion of new interest in transanal surgery. There are many factors driving this including widespread adoption of minimally invasive, laparoscopic skills, suboptimal oncologic results following standard transanal resection, increased utilization of transanal endoscopic surgery, greater interest in organ sparing surgeries, increased recognition of quality of life measures following transanal and radical surgeries, and incorporating multimodality therapies such as neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy to extend the indications for transanal excision of rectal cancer beyond T1 cancers.
Source: Seminars in Colon and Rectal Surgery - Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Source Type: research