Slovenská chirurgia 1/2015
Complications of colorectal cancer surgery. Part II. Postoperative complications
Surgery of colorectal cancer may cause specific complications. These complications can occur already during the surgery itself as well as during the postoperative period. In the short postoperative course the most serious complications include a breakdown of wound, leaking of anastomosis, early stoma complications, peripheral nerves injury. In the later postoperative period patients can suffer from an unhealed perineal wound post abdominoperineal resection – APR, perineal hernia, urogenital complications and late stoma complications.
Keywords: colorectal cancer, postoperative complications, breakdown of wound, anastomotic leakage, stoma complications, perineal hernia, urogenital complications.
