Endosonographic evaluation of low rectal cancer

Introduction: Endoluminal ultrasonography has an ever growing importance in the staging of malignant colon tumours. Identifying the degree of local tumor spread plays a key role in the decision making when tayloring surgical radicality. Also this diagnostic tool influences additional adjuvant therapy. Our goal was to show the degree of diagnostic accuracy of this method identifying the presence and local spread of the primary or recidive tumour in our consecutive series of examinations. Materials and methods: Thirty-two patients with histologically proven low rectal cancer underwent endoluminal transrectal sonog…