Laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer: clinical practice guidelines of the Italian Society of Colo-Rectal Surgery

G. Romano S.G. Moscati Hospital Avellino, Italy desire information about the management of the conditions addressed by the topics covered in this paper. In the development of clinical guidelines for the treatment of colon cancer with a minimally invasive technique, we referred to the EAES Consensus Conference held in Lisbon in 2002 [1]. We searched PubMed and Medline from 1990 to 2006 using the keywords “laparoscopy” and “colorectal neoplasms”; embedded references also were reviewed. Surgical techniques are difficult to evaluate scientifically, so the level of evidence of articles on this topic is, regrettably, low.