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Robot-assisted Total Mesorectal Excision and Lateral Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection for Locally Advanced Middle-low Rectal Cancer
Published on: February 12, 2022
Tore Stornes1, Arne Wibe, Arild Nesbakken
11 Department of Surgery, St. Olav's Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway 2 Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway 3 Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway 4 Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevaal, Oslo, Norway 5 Centre for Cancer Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway 6 K.G. Jebsen Colorectal Cancer Research Centre, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway 7 Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population-Based Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway.
Transanal endoscopic microsurgery showed similar survival to total mesorectal excision for early rectal cancer but had higher local recurrence rates. Further research is needed to clarify optimal treatment strategies.
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