Surgical treatment of rectal bleeding in comorbid patients with chronic radiation proctitis

Abstract

Radiation proctitis is a rare and significant complication of the combined therapy in patients with pelvic cancer. The choice of treatment of chronic radiation proctitis depends on the stage of disease and recurrent rectal bleeding. Comorbidity is cause to complicated proctitis. These clinical cases describe the choice and sequence of surgical interventions in order to achieve successful results in patients with chronic radiation proctitis.

Keywords

• chronic radiation proctitis
• rectal bleeding
• comorbidity
• surgical treatment