Short Papers Meeting, Royal Society of Medicine, London, Section of Coloproctology, February 2004.

The article presents information on meetings conducted by Royal Society of Medicine, London, that were held in February 2004. Multidisciplinary patient management of complex pelvic and perineal disease began in South Wales in 1992 and gradually developed into a formal team with two colorectal surgeons, a urologist, a gynaecologist and a plastic surgeon. A retrospective review was undertaken of 130 case records of patients managed by the pelvic oncology group. There were no postoperative deaths and morbidity was low. Where surgical clearance was attempted we achieved clear histological margins in 62% of cases.