Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Manenti, Antonio, M.D
• Bonetti Reggiani, Luca, M.D
• Farinetti, Alberto, M.D
• Sani, Francesco, M.D

Titel

The lymphatic anatomy of the mesorectum helps to understand rectal cancer recurrence

Ist Teil von

• The American journal of surgery, 2016-10, Vol.212 (4), p.800-800

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]it can be involved by secondary neoplastic implants, caused by seeding from the primary rectal tumor, or by spillage from lymphatic channels engorged with neoplastic cells.3,4 Besides important modifications observed after radiotherapy in vascular and nervous apparatuses of the mesorectum jeopardize its arterial supply and lymphatic drainage for the rectal stump.2 From this point of view, cases with recurrent rectal cancers but operated with total mesorectal excision can be considered different from those with only incomplete mesorectal resection.