Rectal Cancer Treatment

1. Postoperative Pathophysiology and Choice of Incision
Richard P. Billingham

2. Fast-Track Colonic Surgery: Status and Perspectives
Henrik Kehlet

3. Fast-Track Surgery: The Heidelberg Experience
M. Kremer, A. Ulrich, M.W. Büchler, W. Uhl

4. Rectal Cancer: A Compartmental Disease. The Mesorectum and Mesorectal Lymph Nodes
Susan Galandiuk, Kiran Chaturvedi, Boris Topor

5. The Pathological Assessment of Total Mesorectal Excision: What Are the Relevant Resection Margins?
Frank Autschbach

6. Is the Lateral Lymph Node Compartment Relevant?
Moritz Koch, Peter Kienle, Dalibor Antolovic, Markus W. Büchler, Jürgen Weitz

7. Diagnostics of Rectal Cancer: Endorectal Ultrasound
Hanns-Peter Knaebel, Moritz Koch, Tobias Feise, Axel Benner, Peter Kienle

8. Preoperative Staging of Rectal Cancer: The MERCURY Research Project
G. Brown, I. R. Daniels

9. Rectal Cancer Management: Europe Is Ahead
R. J. Heald, I. Daniels

10. Teaching Efforts to Spread TME Surgery in Sweden
Lars Påhlman, Urban Karlbom

11. Learning Curve: The Surgeon as a Prognostic Factor in Colorectal Cancer Surgery
Pietro Renzulli, Urban T. Laffer

12. Surgical Results of Total Mesorectal Excision for Rectal Cancer in a Specialised Colorectal Unit
KokSun Ho, Francis Seow-Choen

13. Total Mesorectal Excision: The Heidelberg Results after TME
Alexis Ulrich, Jan Schmidt, Jürgen Weitz, Markus W. Büchler

14. Is Local Excision of T2/T3 Rectal Cancers Adequate?
D. L. Beral, J. R. T. Monson

15. Operative Treatment of Locally Recurrent Rectal Cancer
Johan N. Wiig, Stein G. Larsen, Karl-Erik Giercksky

16. Laparoscopic TME: Better Vision, Better Results?
T. H. K. Schiedeck, F. Fischer, C. Gondeck, U. J. Roblick, H. P. Bruch

17. Laparoscopic TME—The Surgeon's or the Patient's Preference
J. Göhl, S. Merkel, W. Hohenberger

18. Laparoscopic Total Mesorectal Excision—The Turin Experience
M. Morino, G. Giraudo

19. Evacuation of Neorectal Reservoirs after TME
J. S. Köninger, M. Butters, J. D. Redecke, K. Z'graggen

20. Long-Term Functional Results After Straight or Colonic J-Pouch Coloanal Anastomosis
Guillaume Portier, Ivan Platonoff, Frank Lazorthes

21. Urinary and Sexual Function After Total Mesorectal Excision
Christoph A. Maurer

22. Functional Results of the Colon J-Pouch Versus Transverse Coloplasty Pouch in Heidelberg
Alexis Ulrich, Kaspar Z'graggen, Jürgen Weitz, Markus W. Büchler

23. Indications for Neoadjuvant Long-Term Radiotherapy
Lars Påhlman

24. Neoadjuvant Radiotherapy and Radiochemotherapy for Rectal Cancer
Claus Rödel, Rolf Sauer

25. Adjuvant Radiochemotherapy for Rectal Cancer
Martina Treiber, R. Krempien, H. P. Knaebel, J. Debus

26. Intraoperative Radiotherapy for Rectal Carcinoma
Martina Treiber, S. Oertel, J. Weitz, R. Krempien, M. Bischof, M. Wannenmacher, M. Büchler, J. Debus

27. Indications and Effect on Survival of Standard Chemotherapy in Advanced Colorectal Cancer
Birgit Kallinowski

28. New Chemotherapeutic Strategies in Colorectal Cancer
Markus Moehler, Andreas Teufel, Peter R. Galle

29. Active Specific Immunotherapy in Colon Cancer
A. J. M. Eertwegh

30. Radiofrequency Ablation in Metastatic Disease
Andreas Lubienski

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Keywords: MEDICAL / Public Health MED078000