Carcinoma of Colon and Rectum in Paholpolpayuhasena Hospital

Abstract

          This report of 35 cases of patients who had colorectal carcinoma treated at Paholpolpayuhasena Hospital since October 2000 to September 2005. Twenty - three cases were male (65.71%) and 12 female (34.29%), making a male to female ratio of 1 : 0.51. The average age was 61.37 years, with minimum and maximum ages of 25 and 84 years. Signs and symptoms of the cases included abdominal pain (51.43%), mucous bloody stool (40%) and abdominal distension (31.43%). Ten cases needed emergency surgery. Primary resection with anastomosis was 19 cases (51.58%), primary resection with Hartmann‘s procedure was 5 cases (15.15%). The part of colon commonly found to be the cause was sigmoid (34.29%) and ascen- ding colon (20%). Most of the histopathologic seeing in them was Duke’s C2 (48.37%) and Duke’s B2 (28.57%). A loss of follow-up in patients with appointment was 20 cases. There were 7 cases of crude death.