Caecal cancer and ascending colon cancer had slower rates of metastasis to main nodes compared with transverse colon cancer. Routine prophylactic extended lymphadenectomy for the superior mesenteric ...
Read at the annual meeting of the New England Surgical Society, Portland, Maine, September 11, 1931.
Surgical management of splenic flexure colon cancer presents unique challenges due to its dual vascular supply and variable lymphatic drainage. Approaches range from extended hemicolectomies—removing ...