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REVIEW article

Front. Surg.
Sec. Colorectal and Proctological Surgery
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2024.1400814
This article is part of the Research Topic Surgical Management of Colorectal Pathologies View all 9 articles

Danish guidelines for treating acute colonic obstruction caused by colorectal cancer -a review

Provisionally accepted
Martynas Mikalonis Martynas Mikalonis 1*Tue H. Avlund Tue H. Avlund 2Uffe S. Løve Uffe S. Løve 1
  • 1 Regionshospitalet Viborg, Viborg, Denmark
  • 2 Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

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    Acute onset of colonic obstruction caused by colorectal cancer occurs in approximately 14% of Danish patients with colon cancer(1). Given that colorectal cancer is a common cancer with about 4500 new cases annually, acute onset will occur in a reasonably large number of patients in Danish emergency departments, and all surgeons should be familiar with the treatment principles. A revised guideline from the Danish Colorectal Cancer Group is currently underway, and this status article reviews the latest knowledge and recommendations.

    Keywords: colorectal cancer, Colonic obstruction, emergency, guidelines, Surgery

    Received: 14 Mar 2024; Accepted: 28 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Mikalonis, Avlund and Løve. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Martynas Mikalonis, Regionshospitalet Viborg, Viborg, Denmark

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