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Emergencies Related to Primary Rectal Cancer

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Emergency Surgical Management of Colorectal Cancer

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Emergencies remain a rare form of presentation of rectal cancer. The three main clinical presentations are acute hemorrhage, rectal obstruction, and rectal perforation. Most of the time, these emergencies are associated with poor postoperative outcomes. It is mainly due not only to poor physical status but also to frequent advanced stage of the tumor. The management of those frail patients requires a multidisciplinary medical strategy for which the aim is to try to avoid the high morbidity and the risk of suboptimal oncologic resection associated with emergency proctectomy.

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  1. Department of Colorectal Surgery, Pôle des Maladies de l’Appareil Digestif (PMAD), Beaujon Hospital, Clichy Cedex, France

    Elisabeth Hain, Pénélope Raimbert & Yves Panis

  2. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), University Denis Diderot (Paris VII), Paris, France

    Elisabeth Hain, Pénélope Raimbert, Magaly Zappa & Yves Panis

  3. Department of Radiology, Beaujon Hospital, Clichy Cedex, France

    Magaly Zappa

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Hain, E., Raimbert, P., Zappa, M., Panis, Y. (2019). Emergencies Related to Primary Rectal Cancer. In: de'Angelis, N., Di Saverio, S., Brunetti, F. (eds) Emergency Surgical Management of Colorectal Cancer. Hot Topics in Acute Care Surgery and Trauma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06225-5_9

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