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RISK FACTORS FOR ANASTOMOTIC DEHISCENCE IN RECTAL CANCER SURGERY

Worldwide, colorectal cancer is either the commonest or the second commonest cause of cancer death, and the overall 5-year survival rate is only about 40 per cent. Since 1980, suture instruments have commonly been used for rectal surgery and, with the use of these instruments, the ratio of sphincter ablating procedures to sphincter preserving procedures has been reversed in the treatment of rectal adenocarcinoma. Nowadays, as more than 70 percent of patients with rectal cancer are treated using anterior resection, 20 percent abdominoperineal resection (APR), and 5 percent other procedures, we can say that stapled anastomosis with anterior resection is the standard procedure for rectal cancer surgery. The aim of this retrospective study was to identify the risk factors that might be associated with increased risk of anastomotic dehiscence in patients who had rectal resection for cancer.

risk factors; anastomotic dehiscence; rectal cancer surgery

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