PMID: 9187227Apr 1, 1997Paper

Total mesorectal excision--the new golden standard of surgery for rectal cancer

Annals of Medicine
W E Enker

Abstract

Rectal cancer persists as a significant worldwide problem. Currently, surgery is associated with a poor prognosis, a high likelihood of permanent colostomy and a high rate of local recurrence in patients with regional disease (transmural penetration or involvement of regional mesenteric lymph nodes). Functional changes such as impotence and bladder dysfunction remain distressingly common consequences of conventional surgery. Over the past two decades, a fundamental change in operative technique has taken place. Conventional surgery (which is performed using blunt technique along undefinable tissue planes) has given way to sharp dissection along definable planes. The technique known as total mesorectal excision (TME) or complete circumferential mesorectal excision (CCME) produces the complete resection of an intact package of the rectum and its surrounding mesorectum, enveloped within the visceral pelvic fasia with uninvolved circumferential margins. As a result of TME, 5-year survival figures have risen from 45-50% to 75%, local recurrence rates have declined from 30% to 5-8%, sphincter preservation has risen by at least 20% for mid- and lower rectal cancers, and the rates of impotence and bladder dysfunction have declined from...Continue Reading

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