Description This issue aims to review the current management techniques of malignancy of the major organ sites of the pelvis. It will include articles
on subjects such as rectal, gynecologic and urologic malignancies, as well as musculoskeletal sarcomas and ablative techniques. The Editor
envisions that this issue will encourage multidisciplinary collaboration among specialists in solving formidable challenges of pelvic
malignancy.
Contents 1. Role of Extended APR/Exenteration/Abdominal Sacral Resection (Overview) (Wanebo) 2. Current Management of Rectal Cancer; Total
Mesorectal Excision (Nerve Sparing), Technique and Clinical Outcome (Wong) 3. Proctectomy with Coloanal Anastomosis (Fazio) 4.
Local Excision ?Some Reality Testing? (Rothenberger) 5. Total Pelvic Exenteration with Distal Sacrectomy for Fixed Recurrent Rectal
Cancer (Moriya) 6. Optimizing Resection with Chemotherapy & Radiation for GYN Cancer (Granai) 7. Cervical Cancer – Current Management
of Early/Late Disease (Chi) 8. Surgical Staging of GYN Malignancy (Role of Laparoscopy & Sentinel Node Technology (Rose) 9. Pelvic
Exenteration of GYN Malignancy, Indications, Technical and Reconstructive Considerations (Averette) 10. Surgical Management of Prostate
Cancer – Optimizing Patient Selections & Clinical Outcome (Crawford and Maroni) 11. Bladder Cancer – Resection/Ablation (Keane) 12.
Laparoscopic Lymph Node Dissection in Urologic Cancer (Leveillee) 13. Standard Reconstruction Techniques (Uretro Neocystostomy) (Soloway) 14.
Technique – Internal Hemipelvectomy & Other Function Preserving Techniques for Pelvic Sarcomas (Mankin) 15. Extended Pelvic Resections
for Sarcoma or Visceral Tumors Invading Musculoskeletal Pelvis (Temple) 16. Ablative Techniques – Radiofrequency/Cryo Ablation Techniques
(Dupuy)