This process was a useful first step toward establishing guidelines for the management of anastomotic leak.

Patients treated with a cyclo-oxygenase 2-specific inhibitor have a shorter recovery time when compared with patients on a standard postoperative PCA morphine-only regimen after colorectal resection.

Small, indeterminate liver lesions may occur in up to 16.7% of patients with colorectal cancer. Although most of these lesions remain quiescent, surveillance imaging is recommended because a small but not insignificant proportion of patients with such lesions actually harbor early metastases.

Laparoscopic colectomy is as cost-beneficial in the short term as open colectomy.

Institutional costs are not significantly higher for HALC compared with SLC.