Does Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy Increase the Incidence of Anastomotic Leakage after Colorectal Cancer Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Conclusions: This meta-analysis provides some evidence to suggest ICwh may increase the incidence of postoperative AL in colorectal cancer. However, fluorouracil implantation for ICwh does not increase the risk of AL, which seems to be a relatively safe method of ICwh. PMID: 33564302 [PubMed]

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Source: Gastroenterology Research and Practice - February 11, 2021 Category: Gastroenterology Tags: Gastroenterol Res Pract Source Type: research