[Postoperative complications and local recurrence of mid-lower rectal carcinoma treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and surgery. Preliminary results].

In our study we evaluate postoperative complications and local recurrence in local advanced rectal cancer after preoperative chemoradiation plus surgery. We treated 24 patients, 15 males and 9 females; in all cases the cancer was at stage II or III. Down-staging was observed in 14 patients (58.3%), 2 patients (8.3%) had no residual disease. We performed 2 APR, 20 low anterior resections (10 of which laparoscopic) and 2 transanal local excisions. In postoperative period we observed 8 complications, 4 minor and 4 major ones, with an over-all morbidity of 33.3% and of 16.6% if considering major complications. At present no local recurrence was registered.