… on local excision of rectal cancers and how it fits into the management algorithm for rectal
cancer. … T3 tumors are infrequently treated by local excision with a curative intent, and were …

… is to review the use of local excision for rectal carcinoma, to … by which patients with low
rectal carcinomas may be selected … the adjuvant setting for more advanced rectal tumors [9093], …

… risk of tumor recurrence after local excision. Despite such selection criteria, local excision
carries … The limitation of local excision as a curative operation has been highlighted by recent …

… Patient selection is important for the technical success of a local excision with tumor-free
margins. Ideally, the tumors are less than 4 cm in diameter, take up less than 40% of the rectal …

… locally excised rectal cancers, to find morphologic and pathologic characteristics that were
predictive of local … I think that if you look carefully, it seems as if the tumors that were over T2 in …

… article is to present the case history of patients who underwent local excision of rectal tumors
and the change in indications to a differentiated surgical therapy of early rectal carcinoma. …

… advanced T3 and N1 tumors. It clearly demonstrates that local excision need not be limited
to small (3 cm) tumors, as the mean size of our tumors was 3.6 cm (2–5.5 cm). The role of …

… ) rarely have lymph node involvement, whereas T2 tumors have a 10 to 20 percent chance
of … of adjuvant chemoradiation after local excision for those tumors that have a higher rate of …

… to rectosigmoid and intraperitoneal rectal tumors with sutured anastomoses. Morbidity and
mortality from such major surgery during this period remained high, so it is not surprising that …

… Local excision (LE) used for T2 tumors restricted to the rectal … or T1 carcinoma staged tumors
the postoperative histology … invasive therapeutic concept for T2 tumors is nCRT before LE…