Abstract
Background
The oncologic impact of anastomotic leakage after rectal cancer surgery remains controversial.
Methods
Between January 1999 and December 2010, 1,148 patients with rectal cancer who underwent
curative surgery with sphincter preservation were retrospectively reviewed. Using
the propensity score matching method, 328 patients with fibrin glue were matched to
328 patients without fibrin glue, and oncologic outcomes were compared in the matched
groups.
Results
Anastomotic leakage was diagnosed in 76 patients (6.6%). On multivariate analysis,
fibrin glue was the independent predictor of prevention of anastomotic leakage. In
the 656 matched groups, patients with anastomotic leakage had significantly worse
5-year local recurrence-free survival and disease-free survival than those without
leakage. Multivariate analysis confirmed that anastomotic leakage was an independent
prognostic factor of both local recurrence and disease-free survival, but the use
of fibrin glue was not associated with the long-term outcomes when controlling for
confounders.
Conclusions
Anastomotic leakage is a major independent prognostic factor for long-term outcomes.
Fibrin glue has a protective effect of anastomosis, without oncologic advantages.
Keywords
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: November 11, 2013
Received in revised form:
July 1,
2013
Received:
June 7,
2013
Footnotes
This research was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea, funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (grant 2012R1A1A1004888).
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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