Westwood, AC and West, NP orcid.org/0000-0002-0346-6709 (2018) The importance of pathological quality control for rectal surgery. Mini-invasive Surgery, 2. 38. ISSN 2574-1225
Abstract
Pathologists are an integral member of the colorectal multidisciplinary team and are able to closely interact with surgeons, radiologists and oncologists to facilitate improvements in surgical quality and patient outcomes. Accurate, high quality pathology reports containing all vital prognostic information are essential to ensure the patient receives optimal treatment. These reports should also integrate feedback to all members of the multidisciplinary team on the accuracy of preoperative staging, response to preoperative treatment, and the quality of surgery. Pathologists have played a key role in improving outcomes in patients with rectal cancer by recognising the prognostic importance of an involved circumferential resection margin. In addition, pathologists have described an assessment of the surgical planes of dissection as a marker of surgical quality and thereby a means of quality control. This article will review the current best practice for the pathological assessment of anterior resections and abdominoperineal excisions for rectal cancer and ultimately look at how pathologists can influence quality control in rectal cancer surgery.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018, The Author(s). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, for any purpose, even commercially, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
Keywords: | Rectal cancer; pathological assessment; quality of surgery; mesorectal grading |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Medicine (Leeds) > Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology (LICAP) > Pathology & Tumour Biology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 02 Nov 2018 11:34 |
Last Modified: | 02 Nov 2018 11:34 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | OAE Publishing Inc |
Identification Number: | 10.20517/2574-1225.2018.50 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:138091 |