Decompressing stoma as bridge to resection effective in left-sided obstructive colon cancer
In a recent study published in the Annals of Surgery, researchers have found decompressing stoma (DS) as bridge to surgery (BTS) for left-sided obstructive colon cancer (LSOCC) is associated with better outcomes in mortality and survival rates especially in elder patients.
Symptomatic left-sided malignant colonic obstruction is a medical and surgical emergency. Emergency surgery (ES) is burdened by a high rate of anastomotic leak, assessed at between 18% and 33%. Recently, increased use of DS as BTS for LSOCC has been observed in the Netherlands. However, there is a lack of good quality comparative analyses on DS as BTS with ER. To fill this knowledge gap, researchers of Netherlands conducted a study to compare decompressing stoma (DS) as bridge to surgery (BTS) with emergency resection (ER) for left-sided obstructive colon cancer (LSOCC) using propensity-score matching.
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