Cancer rectal cancer
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients with a solitary adenocarcinoma of the rectum within 15 cm from the anal verge without distant metastases who were candidates for elective surgery were eligible for inclusion
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Cardiovascular or pulmonary instability or failure Severe or unstable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or cardiac disease Coagulopathy not correctable preoperatively Extreme obesity Pregnancy Tumor extensively involving contiguous structures Diffuse peritoneal contamination with perforated viscus Acute inflammatory bowel disease (fever, distension, other signs of toxicity) associated with the malignancy Eneroenteric or enterocutaneous fistula Multiple previous abdominal surgeries Obstruction of the intestine with abdominal distension
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| postoperative clinical outcome in terms of morbidity and mortality | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| adequacy of surgical margins and number of lymph nodes harvested for colorectal cancer cases. | — |
Countries
Egypt
Contacts
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