LAR or sigmoid resection?
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2018 5:03 pm
Hello,
First I would like to thank you all for contributing to this blog and helping others. My mom had a colonoscopy and the gastroentelogist found a tumor at 20 cm from anal verge. Then we went to the colorectal surgeon who rendered another colonoscopy confirming the same results, the biopsy showed severe dysplasia. Then lab results showed a CEA of 1.4 and ct scan showed clear lungs and other organs nearby, however the lymph nodes in the area of the tumor are imflamated. The surgeon thinks it is cancer and suggested a Lower anterior resection. After looking in several websites, I noticed that 20 cm from anal verge is the sigmoid colon, not the rectum. Then why a LAR was suggested and not a sigmoid resection? I am really worried because I have read was the LAR syndrome after that procedure. Or is it a LAR and a sigmoid resection the same thing? Thank you very much!
First I would like to thank you all for contributing to this blog and helping others. My mom had a colonoscopy and the gastroentelogist found a tumor at 20 cm from anal verge. Then we went to the colorectal surgeon who rendered another colonoscopy confirming the same results, the biopsy showed severe dysplasia. Then lab results showed a CEA of 1.4 and ct scan showed clear lungs and other organs nearby, however the lymph nodes in the area of the tumor are imflamated. The surgeon thinks it is cancer and suggested a Lower anterior resection. After looking in several websites, I noticed that 20 cm from anal verge is the sigmoid colon, not the rectum. Then why a LAR was suggested and not a sigmoid resection? I am really worried because I have read was the LAR syndrome after that procedure. Or is it a LAR and a sigmoid resection the same thing? Thank you very much!