Suárez J, Jimenez-Pérez J. Long-term outcomes after stenting as a “bridge to surgery” for the management of acute obstruction secondary to colorectal cancer. World J Gastrointest Oncol 2016; 8(1): 105-112 [PMID: 26798441 DOI: 10.4251/wjgo.v8.i1.105]
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Javier Suárez, MD, Department of General Surgery, Coloproctology Unit, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, c/Irunlarrea - 3, 31008 Pamplona, Spain. fj.suarez.alecha@cfnavarra.es
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Surgery
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World J Gastrointest Oncol. Jan 15, 2016; 8(1): 105-112 Published online Jan 15, 2016. doi: 10.4251/wjgo.v8.i1.105
Long-term outcomes after stenting as a “bridge to surgery” for the management of acute obstruction secondary to colorectal cancer
Javier Suárez, Javier Jimenez-Pérez
Javier Suárez, Department of General Surgery, Coloproctology Unit, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, 31008 Pamplona, Spain
Javier Jimenez-Pérez, Department of Gastroenterology, Endoscopy Unit, Hospital de La Ribera, 46600 Alzira, Spain
Author contributions: Suárez J and Jimenez-Pérez J equally contributed to this work.
Conflict-of-interest statement: Dr. Javier Suárez has no conflicts of interest to disclose with respect to this manuscript. Dr. Javier Jimenez-Pérez is consultat of Boston Scientific. Authors have not commercial interest in the subject of study. No founding source has been used for the study.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Javier Suárez, MD, Department of General Surgery, Coloproctology Unit, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, c/Irunlarrea - 3, 31008 Pamplona, Spain. fj.suarez.alecha@cfnavarra.es
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Received: June 22, 2015 Peer-review started: June 27, 2015 First decision: August 14, 2015 Revised: October 15, 2015 Accepted: November 3, 2015 Article in press: November 4, 2015 Published online: January 15, 2016
Core Tip
Core tip: Self-expanding metal stents placement as a bridge to surgery in patients with obstructive left-colon cancer is controversial. Stent insertion is beneficial regarding perioperative morbidity, being patients with advanced age or with important comorbidity the ones who could obtain more benefit of transforming emergency surgery into elective surgery. But, on the other hand, an increase of local recurrence rate has been shown after stent placement when compared with emergency surgery, compromising oncologic outcome of these patients. Without definitive data, it seems cautious to consider emergency surgery and assume a higher initial complication rate in young patients without relevant co-morbidities avoiding the risk of local recurrence and stenting, accepting the risk of local recurrence but with a lesser perioperative complications rate, in old patients with high surgical risk.
