Why is an anterior resection eg for rectal carcinoma named as such?
I couldn't find the answer anywhere, so thought I would ask here
I couldn't find the answer anywhere, so thought I would ask here
Thanks!Because you're approaching it from the front (i.e. anterior)
YesssssssssYou are all wrong. It's named after the surgeon who first performed it in 1906, Dr. William T. Anterior.
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Which makes you wonder why a right hemicolectomy isnt called an anterior resection, or a gallbladder isnt called an anterior resection.
The reason it is called that, though, is to contrast it with a perineal approach. A truly, solely perineal approach isnt really done for rectal cancer, but a combined abdomino-perineal approach, or APR, is. So a low anterior resection is when the entire operation is done from anterior and an APR is when there is a perineal portion. Basically its shorthand for a rectal cancer operation in which you preserve the sphincters.
Yes, but most TaTMEs require transabdominal laparoscopy similar to a standard anterior resection