High Tie or not in Resection for Cancer in the Sigmoid Colon?

The optimal extent of mesenteric resection in colon cancer surgery remains elusive. The aim was to assess the impact on perioperative morbidity and oncological outcome depending on the height of central vessel ligation in sigmoid resection for adenocarcinomas.All cases of stage I-III sigmoid cancers, operated on with locally radical resections (2007-2009), were identified in the Swedish Colorectal Cancer Registry and categorized according to the...