Combined surgical approach for retrorectal tumours with intra-operative CT guidance: sacral chordoma - a video vignette.
Sotirios Georgios PopeskouAlessandra CristaudiFabio GarofaloDiana CelioFrancesco MongeliPietro ScaronePietro Majno-HurstDimitri ChristoforidisPublished in: Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (2020)
Retro rectal tumours, whether benign or malignant in nature, are a rare challenge for the colorectal surgeon. Often differential diagnosis is based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (1). Sacral chordomas are a very seldom presentation of a retro rectal tumour. They affect only 8/1.000.000 people/year and treatment involves maximal surgical resection with en bloc tumour removal via sacrectomy or sacral amputation.