Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics Main Menu Home Page Sacral resection. Operative technique and outcome. Archives of Surgery.
Tumors involving the sacrum are difficult to treat.
These include both primary tumors of the sacrum and locally invasive colorectal carcinomas. Sacral resection is often the only effective alternative for meaningful palliation or cure of sacral tumors. Long-term survival was achieved with primary tumors of the sacrum. Local control of disease was achieved in the majority of patients with rectal cancer, with good palliation of in the majority of patients with rectal cancer, with good palliation of preoperative pain. Long-term survival, however, is rare in this group.