Table 1.
Symptoms and consequences that a patient with an anterior resection (sphincter-preserving rectal resection) can have, as suggested by the International Consensus Definition of Low Anterior Resection Syndrome.
Table 2.
Interview guide.
Table 3.
Examples from the data analysis using Giorgi´s phenomenological method.
Table 4.
Characteristics of patients included in the study (N = 5).
Fig 1.
Main themes related to patients’ experiences of living with major LARS in the first three to six months after surgery.