Management of presacral tumors: Our experience with posterior approach

•Presacral tumors are rare variety of space occupying lesions which due to their location, etiological heterogeneity and difficult surgical approach, present a challenge to treating physician.•Surgical excision remains the treatment of choice for presacral masses.•Posterior surgical approach, if app...

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Main Authors: Saxena, Dhananjay, Pandey, Abhinav, Bugalia, Rajendra Prasad, Kumar, Mahendra, Kadam, Raju, Agarwal, Vipul, Goyal, Amit, Kankaria, Jeevan, Jenaw, Raj Kamal
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4486097/
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spelling pubmed-44860972015-07-06 Management of presacral tumors: Our experience with posterior approach Saxena, Dhananjay Pandey, Abhinav Bugalia, Rajendra Prasad Kumar, Mahendra Kadam, Raju Agarwal, Vipul Goyal, Amit Kankaria, Jeevan Jenaw, Raj Kamal Case Series •Presacral tumors are rare variety of space occupying lesions which due to their location, etiological heterogeneity and difficult surgical approach, present a challenge to treating physician.•Surgical excision remains the treatment of choice for presacral masses.•Posterior surgical approach, if applied judicially, in carefully selected cases, remains an attractive option as it provides better surgical exposure, is more direct approach, commodious to adopt, easy to learn with quicker post-operative recovery. Elsevier 2015-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4486097/ /pubmed/25996775 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2015.05.015 Text en © 2015 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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author Saxena, Dhananjay
Pandey, Abhinav
Bugalia, Rajendra Prasad
Kumar, Mahendra
Kadam, Raju
Agarwal, Vipul
Goyal, Amit
Kankaria, Jeevan
Jenaw, Raj Kamal
spellingShingle Saxena, Dhananjay
Pandey, Abhinav
Bugalia, Rajendra Prasad
Kumar, Mahendra
Kadam, Raju
Agarwal, Vipul
Goyal, Amit
Kankaria, Jeevan
Jenaw, Raj Kamal
Management of presacral tumors: Our experience with posterior approach
author_facet Saxena, Dhananjay
Pandey, Abhinav
Bugalia, Rajendra Prasad
Kumar, Mahendra
Kadam, Raju
Agarwal, Vipul
Goyal, Amit
Kankaria, Jeevan
Jenaw, Raj Kamal
author_sort Saxena, Dhananjay
title Management of presacral tumors: Our experience with posterior approach
title_short Management of presacral tumors: Our experience with posterior approach
title_full Management of presacral tumors: Our experience with posterior approach
title_fullStr Management of presacral tumors: Our experience with posterior approach
title_full_unstemmed Management of presacral tumors: Our experience with posterior approach
title_sort management of presacral tumors: our experience with posterior approach
description •Presacral tumors are rare variety of space occupying lesions which due to their location, etiological heterogeneity and difficult surgical approach, present a challenge to treating physician.•Surgical excision remains the treatment of choice for presacral masses.•Posterior surgical approach, if applied judicially, in carefully selected cases, remains an attractive option as it provides better surgical exposure, is more direct approach, commodious to adopt, easy to learn with quicker post-operative recovery.
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2015
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4486097/
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