RT Book, Section
A1 Doherty, Gerard M.
SR Print(0)
ID 58091991
T1 Anal Canal Cancer
T2 Quick Answers Surgery
YR 2010
FD 2010
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=58091991
RD 2024/04/24
AB •  Account  for  1.5%  of  GI  tract  cancers•  Usually  long  history  of  perianal  complaints•  Disease  may  be  quite  extensive  at  presentation•  Associated  with  chronic  anal  infection  (human  papillomavirus)•  Tumors  anatomically  found  from  the  upper  to  lower  border  of  the  internal  anal  sphincter,  6-12  mm  above  dentate  line•  Referred  to  as  epidermoid  carcinoma