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Fifteen patients with recurrent rectal cancer after low anterior resection were treated by electroresection/coagulation in order to avoid colostomy. Nine patients were alive without colostomy eight to 16 months after the first treatment and three died without colostomy from metastatic disease 24 to 36 months after the first electroresection. Electroresection/coagulation as treatment of inoperable recurrence after low anterior resection should be considered an alternative to colostomy.
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Christiansen, J., Kirkegaard, P. Treatment of recurrent rectal cancer by electroresection/coagulation after low anterior resection. Dis Colon Rectum 26, 656–657 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02553335
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