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Surgical treatment of retrorectal tumors: our experience in 34 patients

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  • The retrorectal tumors represent a heterogeneous group of benign and malignant neoplasms which are currently treated without uniform criteria

  • 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

  • Two radiologists, who were blind to the patients records, separately reviewed preoperative CT and MR findings and classified the tumors in three groups: group I those arising in the presacral area, group II those arising in the sacrum or spinal cord growing anteriorly, group III those arising in the sacrum growing posteriorly

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Address: Department of General Surgery, Surgical Specialities and Organ Transplantation "P. Stefanini", Umberto I Hospital "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy. Published: 1 April 2009 BMC Geriatrics 2009, 9(Suppl 1):A28 doi:10.1186/1471-2318-9-S1-A28. 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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