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Abdominoperineal resection
Abdominoperineal resection is an operation for low rectal cancer that removes the rectum, anal sphincters, and anus through abdominal and perineal incisions, leaving a permanent colostomy.
Anorectoplasty
Anorectoplasty is surgery that creates a new anus and pulls the rectum down to it, treating children born with anorectal malformations; the standard technique is posterior sagittal anorectoplasty.
Colonic Pouches
Colonic pouches (ileal pouches, J-pouch, Kock pouch) are internal reservoirs made from ileum to replace the colon and rectum after restorative proctocolectomy, mainly for ulcerative colitis and FAP, pioneered by Kock in 1969 and Parks and Nicholls in 1978.
Colorectal Surgical Procedures
Colorectal surgical procedures, also called Surgical Procedures, Colorectal (MeSH D000099090), are operations on the colon, rectum, and anal canal, including colectomy, proctectomy, and IPAA, performed open, laparoscopically, or robotically.
Intersphincteric resection
Intersphincteric resection (ISR) is an operation for very low rectal cancer that removes the rectum and part of the internal anal sphincter, avoiding a permanent colostomy.
Mesh rectopexy
Mesh rectopexy is a surgical operation that uses a strip of synthetic or biological mesh to fix the rectum to the sacral promontory, treating rectal prolapse.
Posterior sagittal anorectoplasty
Posterior sagittal anorectoplasty (PSARP) is a pediatric operation, introduced in 1982, that repairs anorectal malformations by dissecting through the midline to place a new anus within the sphincter muscle complex.
Proctectomy
Proctectomy is an operation to remove all or part of the rectum, most often for middle or low rectal cancer and also for inflammatory bowel disease.
Rectal resection
Rectal resection, including the low anterior resection, is surgery that removes all or part of the rectum, most often to treat rectal cancer using total mesorectal excision.
Rectopexy
Rectopexy is a colorectal surgical operation that anchors a mobile rectum to the sacrum with sutures or mesh to cure rectal prolapse, performed by open, laparoscopic, or robotic access.
Total mesorectal excision
Total mesorectal excision is an operation for rectal cancer that removes the rectum with its surrounding envelope of fat and lymphatics, the mesorectum, first reported by R. J. Heald in 1986.
Transanal Endoscopic Surgery
Transanal endoscopic surgery (TES): TEM, TEO, and TAMIS techniques for local excision of rectal neoplasms through the anus using CO2 insufflation and endoscopic optics; TEM introduced by Gerhard Buess in 1983, TAMIS in 2010.
Transanal excision
Transanal excision (TAE) is a surgical technique that removes rectal lesions and early tumors through the anus, without abdominal incision, as an organ-sparing alternative to radical resection for selected low rectal tumors.
Transanal total mesorectal excision
Transanal total mesorectal excision (taTME) is an operation for mid and low rectal cancer in which the rectum and mesorectum are dissected through the anus, from below.
Ventral rectopexy
Ventral rectopexy is a surgical procedure for rectal prolapse that suspends the rectum with a mesh fixed to the sacral promontory, avoiding posterior dissection to protect pelvic nerves.