Abstract
Of a total 712 patients with left-sided colorectal cancer, 79 (11%) required emergency surgery due to severe obstruction by tumors. Of these 79 patients, 55 underwent tumor resection and anastomosis. Primary resection and anastomosis with intraoperative bowel irrigation was performed in 44 patients (primary group), while staged resection and anastomosis was performed in only 11 (staged group). In comparing the two groups, there was no significant difference in the rates of curative resection, being 76% versus 90%. However, the primary group demonstrated significantly lower rates of postoperative wound infection (P<0.001), anastomotic dehiscence (P \(\underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\cdot}$}}{\dot = } \)0.05), and postoperative mortality, at 2% versus 18% (P<0.05). The cumulative survival curve was also better in the primary group (P<0.05). These favorable results of the primary group were confirmed by analyses which established that no bias of therapeutic backgrounds existed in either of the two groups. Thus, it was concluded that for left-sided obstructing colorectal carcinoma, intraoperative bowel irrigation, followed by primary resection and anastomosis, produces more advantageous results.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Goligher JG, Smiddy FG (1957) The treatment of acute obstruction or perforation with carcinoma of the colon and rectum. Br J Surg 45:270–274
Irvin TT, Greaney MG (1977) The treatment of colonic cancer presenting with intestinal obstruction. Br J Surg 64:741–744
Welch JP, Donaldson GA (1974) Management of severe obstruction of the large bowel due to malignant disease. Am J Surg 127:492–497
Clark J, Hall AW, Moosa AR (1975) Treatment of obstructing cancer of the colon and rectum. Surg Gynecol Obstet 141:541–544
Dutton JW, Hreno AH, Hampson LG (1976) Mortality and prognosis of obstructing carcinoma of the large bowel. Am J Surg 131:36–41
Irvin TT, Goligher JC (1973) Aetiology of disruption of intestinal anastomosis. Br J Surg 60:461–464
Dudley HAF, Radcliffe AG, McGeehan D (1980) Intraoperative irrigation of the colon to permit primary anastomosis. Br J Surg 67:80–81
Radcliffe AG, Dudley HAF (1983) Intraoperative antegrade irrigation of the large intestine. Surg Gynecol Obstet 156:721–723
Öhman U (1982) Prognosis in patients with obstructing colorectal carcinoma. Am J Surg 143:742–747
Wilder TC, Dockerty MB, Waugh JM (1961) A clinicopathologic study of obstructing carcinomas of the right portion of the colon. Surg Gynecol Obstet 113:353–359
Ragland JJ, Londe AM, Spratt JS Jr (1971) Correlation to the prognosis of obstructing colorectal carcinoma with clinical and pathologic variables. Am J Surg 121:552–556
Nickel DF, Dokerty MB (1948) The five-year survival rate in cases of completely obstructing annular carcinoma of the descending colon and sigmoid. A pathologic study. Surg Gynecol Obstet 87:519–524
Carboni R (1978) The treatment of acute left colon obstruction due to cancer. Chir Gastroent 12:53–59
Fielding LP, Wells BW (1974) Survival after primary and after staged resection for large bowel obstruction caused by cancer. Br J Surg 61:16–18
Amsterdam E, Krispin M (1985) Primary resection with colo-colostomy for obstructive carcinoma of the left side of the colon. Am J Surg 150:558–560
Klatt GR, Martin WH, Gillespie JT (1981) Subtotal colectomy with primary anastomosis without diversion in the treatment of obstructing carcinoma of the left colon. Am J Surg 141:577–578
Halevy A, Levi J, Orda R (1989) Emergency subtotal colectomy: A new trend for treatment of obstructing carcinoma of the left colon. Ann Surg 210:220–223
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Mochizuki, H., Nakamura, E., Hase, K. et al. The advantage of primary resection and anastomosis with intraoperative bowel irrigation for obstructing left-sided colorectal carcinoma. Surg Today 23, 771–776 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00311618
Received:
Accepted:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00311618