Laparoscopic colo-rectal surgery in octogenarians

Coletta Martina,Baldarelli Maddalena,De Sanctis Angelo,Campagnacci Roberto,Guerrieri Mario,Rimini Massimiliano

doi:10.1186/1471-2318-9-s1-a10

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Methods From 1 January 2003 to 30 June 2008, 128 colo-rectal operations were performed on patients 80 years old or more, at the Department of General Surgery of University Politecnica delle Marche. Patients were composed of 61 (47.6%) males and 67 (52.4%) females. Mean age was 83.4 years (range 80–95). Ninety-four (73.4%) operations were carried out by laparoscopic technique versus 34 (26.6%) by laparotomic approach. Surgical operations were: 47 (36.7%) right colectomy, 38 (29.7%) left colectomy, 8 (6.3%) transverse resection, 3 (2.3%) sigmoid resections, 20 (15.6%) rectum resections, 10 (7.8%) abdomino-perineal rectum amputation, 1 (0.8%) total colectomy. Indications were represented by malignant lesions in 89 patients (94.7%) of LR and by 27 cases (82.4%) of OR.

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Open AccessAddress: Clinica di Chirurgia Generale e Metodologia Chirurgica, Università Politecnica delle Marche – Ospedali Riuniti, 60121, Ancona, Italy * Corresponding author from XXI Annual Meeting of The Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery Terni, Italy. 4–6 December 2008
Laparoscopic colo-rectal surgery in octogenarians Coletta Martina*, Baldarelli Maddalena, Rimini Massimiliano, De Sanctis Angelo, Campagnacci Roberto and Guerrieri Mario
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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Address: Clinica di Chirurgia Generale e Metodologia Chirurgica, Università Politecnica delle Marche – Ospedali Riuniti, 60121, Ancona, Italy * Corresponding author from XXI Annual Meeting of The Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery Terni, Italy. 4–6 December 2008. Address: Clinica di Chirurgia Generale e Metodologia Chirurgica, Università Politecnica delle Marche – Ospedali Riuniti, 60121, Ancona, 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):A10 doi:10.1186/1471-2318-9-S1-A10. 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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