Management of inguinal lymph node metastases from rectal and anal canal adenocarcinoma.
Harunobu SatoKotaro MaedaYusuke KinugasaHiroyasu KagawaShunsuke TsukamotoKeiichi TakahashiHiroaki NozawaYasumasa TakiiTsuyoshi KonishiYoshito AkagiTakeshi SutoShigeki YamaguchiHeita OzawaKoji KomoriMasayuki OhueJunichiro HiroSeiichi ShinjiKazuhito MinamiTomoharu ShimizuKazuhiro SakamotoKeisuke UeharaHiroshi TakahashiKenichi SugiharaPublished in: Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (2022)
The ILN can be appropriately classified as a regional lymph node in rectal and anal canal adenocarcinoma. Moreover, aggressive ILN dissection might be effective in improving the prognosis of low rectal and anal canal adenocarcinoma with ILN metastases; thus, prophylactic ILN dissection is unnecessary.