[Prevention of suppurative complications in the presacral space after abdomino-perineal excision of the rectum].

The authors have analyzed results of the direct treatment of 53 patients with carcinoma of the rectum. Operations after Quenu-Milse were fulfilled in all the patients. It was shown that draining of the presacral space by a bilumenal drain followed by the arrigation in the running-fractional regimen is a good measure of prophylactics of purulent complications and reducing lethality.