Surgical treatment of high-lying rectal neoplasms

Currently, the dominant surgical interventions for high-lying rectal neoplasms are intraperitoneal and sacral methods. The latter methods, which are well established, have a great statistical record both in our Union and among surgeons in the West and America. However, we cannot say that we are completely satisfied with these methods: peritoneal-sacral method has a high mortality rate (47%), sacral method has less mortality but is also not without shadows. In the following lines we intend to describe the method applied by us on May 5, 1933, in case of high colon cancer of the patient M. Shchetinina, 39 years old.