1. Successful laparoscopic treatment of advanced rectal cancer in an extremely elderly man (101 years and 9 months).
- Author
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Nagai Y, Togo N, Nakagi M, Takai S, Tanaka M, Yasuoka H, and Tatsumi T
- Subjects
- Aged, 80 and over, Frail Elderly, Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage etiology, Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage surgery, Humans, Male, Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures methods, Neoplasm Invasiveness pathology, Neoplasm Staging, Operative Time, Prognosis, Rectal Neoplasms complications, Rectal Neoplasms diagnostic imaging, Treatment Outcome, Lymph Node Excision methods, Lymph Nodes pathology, Proctoscopy methods, Rectal Neoplasms pathology, Rectal Neoplasms surgery
- Abstract
An extremely elderly man (age, 101 years and 9 months) visited our hospital because of recurrent and worsening anal bleeding. Type 2 rectal cancer was found in his rectum during colonoscopy. He did not have any severe coexisting diseases and had not suffered any episodes of dementia. Laparoscopy-assisted anterior resection combined with D2 lymph node dissection was performed with minimal bleeding. The operation time was 128 min. The patient suffered mild reflux pneumonia on postoperative day 6 and was administered additional antibiotics. He recovered within 2 days. He was discharged on postoperative day 17, at which point he was able to walk., (© 2017 Japan Society for Endoscopic Surgery, Asia Endosurgery Task Force and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.)
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- 2018
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