OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to investigate the convergent and discriminative validity and reliability of the low anterior resection syndrome (LARS) score in an international setting. BACKGROUND The LARS score is a simple self-administered questionnaire measuring bowel dysfunction after rectal cancer surgery. The score is intended to be commonly used in international research and cli...

Among women with intestinal endometriosis, the sigmoid colon and rectum are the most commonly involved areas. Sometimes, the differential diagnosis of colorectal endometriosis from carcinoma of the colon and rectum is difficult due to similar colonoscopic and radiologic findings. From October 2002 to September 2007, we performed five operations with curative intent for rectal and sigmoid colon ...

discussion thymic cyst must be considered in differential diagnosis of a young child with a cervical mass. introduction ectopic cervical thymic cyst is a very rare cause of neck masses in children. the diagnosis is sometimes very difficult and preoperative, correctly diagnosed thymic cysts in the neck are very low. case presentation we report a 5-year-old boy with a left sided cervical mass and...

Low rectal tumors have increasingly been treated by sphincter-saving operations (SSO), but some patients with a low anterior resection (LAR) or a coloanal anastomosis (CAA), with or without (chemo)radiotherapy, may suffer from a defecation disorder called “anterior resection syndrome” (ARS). Frequent bowel action, urgency, symptoms of fecal incontinence, that characterize anterior resection syn...

PURPOSE A complication after restorative rectal surgery with a straight anastomosis is low-anterior resection syndrome with a postoperatively deteriorated anorectal function. The colonic J-reservoir is sometimes used with the purpose of reducing these symptoms. An alternative method is to use a simple side-to-end anastomosis or a coloplasty. MATERIAL AND METHODS Three-hundred fiftyseven patie...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopy-assisted low anterior resection (LAR) of colorectal cancer, using a posterior surgical approach, is a difficult and controversial procedure to perform. We report successful operations on 13 patients with clear surgical margins and no serious complications. METHODS Thirteen patients [10 males and three females, age range: 48 to 69 years (median: 61 years)] with low adeno...

We experienced 3 cases of manometry-induced colon perforation. A 75-year-old man (case 1) underwent anorectal manometry (ARM) 3 years after radiotherapy for prostate cancer and a laparoscopic intersphincteric resection for rectal cancer. A 70-year-old man (case 2) underwent ARM 3 months after conventional neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and a laparoscopic low anterior resection for rectal cancer....