Thirty patients with rectal diseases

including 28 cases of rectal carcinoma and 2 cases of rectal villus adenoma

were reported. A11 the lesions were resected with anterior resection by the use of rectal stapling device.Satisfactory anastomoses were resulted in 27 cases. Two of the 3 failures were reanastomosed by the stapling device and another was revised by manual anastomosis. There were 3 cases of anastomotic complications

2 bleeding and 1 leakage.The indication and complications of colo-rectal anterior resection by the use of stapling device were discussed and we concluded that the stapling device had rather practical value in clinical use because it was easy to .practice

the complication rate was low and more anterior resections

could be done in diseases of middle and lower rectum