Abstract
Presacral or retrorectal tumors are uncommon. At the Mayo Clinic, a large tertiary care center, only 120 patients with retrorectal tumors were seen over a 20-year period (Jao et al. 1985). Uhlig reviewed the medical records of Portland Oregon’s major hospitals over a 30-year period prior to 1975 and identified 63 cases, approximately 2 per year in major metropolitan area (Uhlig and Johnson 1975). In a more recent report from Washington University in St. Louis, only 32 patients with retrorectal tumors were seen over a 22-year period ending in 2003 (Glasgow et al. 2005).
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Devine, R.M. (2010). Managing Presacral Tumors. In: Zbar, A., Wexner, S. (eds) Coloproctology. Springer Specialist Surgery Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-756-1_7
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