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Future of cryosurgical treatment for anorectal disease.

[In Japanese. / En japonais.]

Author(s) : YAMAMOTO Y., IMAI H., IWAMOTO S., MURE T., KASAI Y., FUJIMORI Y., TADAOKA Y., YOSHIDA K., KIMOTO M., TSUNODA T.

Type of article: Article

Summary

Over the last 19 years the authors treated 14 cases of local recurrence of rectal cancer, 22 cases of rectal cancer, 14 cases of other digestive diseases and 309 cases of internal hemorrhoids, using cryosurgery. In recent years the number of patients who were treated with cryosurgical hemorrhoidectomy tended to decrease. Since some of the patients with internal hemorrhoids wish to be treated by cryosurgery, the authors would continue this technique, even for a only few cases a year. Preoperative cryosurgery for rectal cancer and palliative application for other digestive diseases expecting local effects could not prove their significant usefulness compared with the control group. In the future they will use cryosurgery as part of multidisciplinary therapy to treat patients with local recurrence of rectal cancer.

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  • Original title: [In Japanese. / En japonais.]
  • Record ID : 1994-3889
  • Languages: Japanese
  • Source: Low Temperature Medicine - vol. 19 - n. 3
  • Publication date: 1993/09
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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