A 16-year-old girl presented to the emergency department with subacute pelvic pain, painful micturition and polyuria for 3 days. She had a past history of dysmenorrhea and chronic constipation for many years without any relevant surgical history. Patient had no fever or vomiting. On examination the patient had a soft abdomen with non-tender pelvic mass. The abdominal plain film revealed a lower...

Rectourethral fistulas (RUFs) in adults are rare and could result from complicated trauma, and prostatic or rectal surgery. RUFs have been treated initially by using primary repair and omental interposition with or without a colostomy during surgery. Recurrent RUFs require complex surgery, such as a low rectal resection and coloanal anastomosis, an interposition flap of the datos muscle or grac...

This paper presents a case of necrosis the pulled-through colon after abdomino-anal resection rectum, which was diagnosed by using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A 47-year-old man underwent laparoscopically assisted rectum with reconstruction coloplasty pouch and transverse colostomy in course combination treatment for locally advanced rectal cancer. The postoperative period complicated deve...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic low anterior resection (Lap LAR) and total mesorectal excision (TME) is the standard minimally invasive surgery (MIS) for mid and low rectal tumours. However, the pelvic resection in particular for bulky tumour in the narrow male pelvis has always been a challenge for surgeons. Transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM) is a well-established technique and synchronous abdomi...

Received November 16, 2007, Accepted July 8, 2008 Correspondence to: Seung-Yong Jeong, Center for Colorectal Cancer, Research Institute & Hospital, National Cancer Center, 111 Jungbalsan-ro, Ilsandong-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do 410-769, Korea Tel: +82-31-920-2341, Fax: +82-31-920-2468 E-mail: [email protected] A portion of this article was presented as a poster at the 2007 fall meeting of the K...

Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer, second in women, and fourth leading cause of death world. Radical surgical treatment with Total Mesorectal Excision (TME) considered best for found lower rectum has benefits complete tumor removal to reduce risk recurrence improve survival. Advances preoperative chemoradiation therapy have increased chances achieving a 1 cm distal margin allowe...

BACKGROUND Turnbull-Cutait abdominoperineal pull-through followed by delayed coloanal anastomosis (DCA) was first described in 1961. Studies have described its use for challenging colorectal conditions. We reviewed our experience with Turnbull-Cutait DCA as a salvage procedure for complex failure of colorectal anastomosis. METHODS We performed a retrospective cohort study from October 2010 to...

Introduction. Patients with the diagnosis of carcinoma rectum after random allocation were assigned to 2 groups. One group was subjected to total mesorectal excision with coloplasty neorectum reconstruction and another group to total mesorectal excision with straight anastomosis. This randomization was done by odds and even method by the sister in charge of the ward to avoid bias in randomizati...