The efficacy of open transanal drainage tube against anastomotic leakage in left-sided colorectal cancer surgery: a propensity score matching study by Gen Tsujio, Tatsunari Fukuoka, Atsushi Sugimoto, Ken Yonemitsu, Yuki Seki, Hiroaki Kasashima, Yuichiro Miki, Mami Yoshii, Tatsuro Tamura, Masatsune Shibutani, Takahiro Toyokawa, Shigeru Lee, Kiyoshi Maeda

“…Materials and methods From January 2016 to July 2023, 233 consecutive patients underwent radical surgery for sigmoid colon and rectal cancers and reconstruction using DST at Osaka Metropolitan University Hospital. …”
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Artificial Intelligence Models May Aid in Predicting Lymph Node Metastasis in Patients with T1 Colorectal Cancer by Ji Eun Baek, Hahn Yi, Seung Wook Hong, Subin Song, Ji Young Lee, Sung Wook Hwang, Sang Hyoung Park, Dong-Hoon Yang, Byong Duk Ye, Seung-Jae Myung, Suk-Kyun Yang, Namkug Kim, Jeong-Sik Byeon

“…The AUROC value was similar between T1 colon versus T1 rectal cancers (0.718 vs 0.615, p=0.700). The AUROC value was also similar between the initial endoscopic resection and initial surgery groups (0.581 vs 0.746, p=0.845). …”
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