Status:

COMPLETED

Rectal Cancer Trial On Defunctioning Stoma

Lead Sponsor:

Rectal Cancer Trial on Defunctioning Stoma Study Group

Conditions:

Rectal Cancer

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Brief Summary

The hypothesis of the present trial was that the use of a defunctioning loop stoma reduces the rate of symptomatic anastomotic leakage from 15% to 7.5% after low anterior resection of the rectum for c...

Detailed Description

The assumption that a defunctioning loop stoma reduces symptomatic anastomotic leakage from 15% to 7.5%, with a level of statistical significance of 5% and a statistical power of 80%, requires randomi...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Absence of intraoperative adverse events according to the study protocol and the operating surgeon.

Exclusion

  • Presence of intraoperative adverse events according to the study protocol and the operating surgeon.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

December 1 1999

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

Estimated Enrollment :

234 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00636948

Start Date

December 1 1999

Last Update

March 17 2008

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Department of Surgery, Linköping University Hospital

Linköping, Sweden, 581 85