Plane of mesocolic dissection as predictor of recurrence after complete mesocolic excision for sigmoid colon cancer: A cohort study.
Sara SakjahAnna Sofie Friis OlsenAnders Kierkegaard GundestrupPernille Wolder BornBirgitte BolsPeter IngeholmJakob KleifClaus Anders BertelsenPublished in: Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (2022)
Intramesocolic plane dissection was not a risk factor for recurrence after complete mesocolic excision for sigmoid cancer when compared with mesocolic plane dissection. No difference in risk of local recurrence, death before recurrence, and in overall survival after 4.2 years was observed between the two groups. With less than 1% of the specimens deemed as muscularis propria plane dissection, the classification appears unusable for the risk prediction of sigmoid colon cancer.