Abstract
Materials and methods Consecutive 87 patients who had laparoscopic resection of right colon, left colon, sigma and/or supraperitoneal rectum for colorectal carcinoma or adenoma with medium/severe dysplasia from June 2005 to August 2008 were included. Two age-matched cohorts of patients were compared: 45 patients (group 1) of 65 years or older and 42 patients younger than 65. All of the patients underwent preoperative exams, colonoscopy with multiple biopsy and CT-scan, and all data concerning demographics, disease, details of operations and postoperative events were collected prospectively.
Highlights
The aim of this study is to assess the feasibility and the safety of laparoscopic resections for colorectal cancer in elderly patients and to determine the oncological radicality and the benefits in the postoperative outcome
XI Annual Meeting of The Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery Francesco Sciannameo, Giammario Giustozzi and Beatrice Sensi Publication of this supplement was made possible with support from the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Terni e Narni Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2318-9-S1
With regard to oncological radicality, resection margins were free from neoplastic infiltration (R0) in all cases and mean number of lymph nodes retrieved was 21.8 ± 10.7 in group 1 and 21.2 ± 11.4 in group 2 (p > 0.05)
Summary
Address: Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy * Corresponding author from XXI Annual Meeting of The Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery Terni, Italy. Published: 1 April 2009 BMC Geriatrics 2009, 9(Suppl 1):A95 doi:10.1186/1471-2318-9-S1-A95. XI Annual Meeting of The Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery Francesco Sciannameo, Giammario Giustozzi and Beatrice Sensi Publication of this supplement was made possible with support from the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Terni e Narni Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2318-9-S1-
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