Abstract | BACKGROUND/AIMS: METHODOLOGY: The oncologic outcomes of 48 patients with advanced colorectal carcinoma who underwent laparoscopic colectomy between 1993 and 1998 were compared with those of 48 matched patients who underwent conventional open surgery during the same period or immediately before the introduction of laparoscopic surgery. RESULTS: The median follow-up for the laparoscopic group and the open colectomy group was 41 and 68 months, respectively. No port site recurrence occurred in the laparoscopic group, and the medium-term disease-free rate, overall survival rate, as well as the patterns of recurrence were comparable in the two groups. CONCLUSIONS: Oncologic outcome of laparoscopic colectomy at a minimum of two years was not compromised compared with conventional open surgery even in advanced carcinoma. However, information regarding true oncologic outcome will require careful long-term follow-up.
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Authors | S Yamamoto, M Watanabe, H Hasegawa, M Kitajima |
Journal | Hepato-gastroenterology
(Hepatogastroenterology)
2001 Sep-Oct
Vol. 48
Issue 41
Pg. 1248-51
ISSN: 0172-6390 [Print] Greece |
PMID | 11677939
(Publication Type: Comparative Study, Journal Article)
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Topics |
- Aged
- Colectomy
- Colorectal Neoplasms
(mortality, pathology, surgery)
- Female
- Follow-Up Studies
- Humans
- Laparoscopy
- Lymph Node Excision
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Neoplasm Staging
- Retrospective Studies
- Survival Analysis
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