Safety and usefulness of needle-guided resection of levator muscles in laparoscopic abdominoperineal resection for low rectal cancer

Introduction : During laparoscopic abdominoperineal resection (APR) for low rectal cancer, it is difficult to resect the levator muscles and remove a cylindrical specimen without venturing close to the rectal wall to ensure negative circumferential resection margins (CRM). To solve this problem, we...

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Main Authors: Takehito Yamamoto, Akiyoshi Kanazawa, Hiroyuki Matsubara, Takuya Okamoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Termedia Publishing House 2016-07-01
Series:Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques
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Online Access:https://www.termedia.pl/Safety-and-usefulness-of-needle-guided-resection-of-levator-r-nmuscles-in-laparoscopic-abdominoperineal-resection-for-low-r-nrectal-cancer,42,28026,1,1.html