Gastro Medical News about Rectal Neoplasms

Most Viewed Abstracts

1. Report Shows Shift in Starting Salaries for Physicians

2. Use of Antiemetic Agents in Acute Gastroenteritis

3. 2008 Exclusive Survey—Earnings: Good news for primary care income

4. A randomised phase III study on capecitabine, oxaliplatin and bevacizumab with or without cetuximab in first-line advanced colorectal cancer, the CAIRO2 study of the Dutch Colorectal Cancer Group (DCCG). An interim analysis of toxicity

5. Medicare pay-for-reporting effort draws fire from frustrated doctors

Your Article Summary

See Latest Articles

(Click the title below to leave the MDLinx Network and go to the Journal's Website)

Rigid sigmoidoscopy and MRI are not interchangeable in determining the position of rectal cancers
European Journal of Surgical Oncology, 10/21/09

Baatrup G et al. – MRI and sigmoidoscopy are not interchangeable in determining the distance from anus to tumour simply by correcting for the length of the anal canal. It has not been determined if measurements from MRI or sigmoidoscopy are more accurate, but current evidence concerning the effect of neoadjuvant irradiation at different positions in the rectum is based upon rigid sigmoidoscopy. The gain in tumour free distance above the anus induced by neoadjuvant treatment is small. Facilitation of sphincter–saving surgery should not be an argument for neoadjuvant treatment.

<< Previous
Predictors and prognostic significance of operative complications...

Next >>
Investigation of innate immunity genes CARD4, CARD8 and CARD15 as...