Lower GI 2016

Does extreme resection need radiotherapy?

Anastomotic leak rate 17% On multivariate analysis AL associated with:

135 patients over 1995-2012 T3 60% No preoperative RT No stoma

partial ISR (OR 6.701; P = 0.001) straight join (OR 5.552; P = 0.002)

Koyama et al Ann Surg Oncol. 2016;23(2):249-56.