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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
[Robotic-assisted transanal total mesorectal excision for lower rectal cancer]
Jingwang Ye1, Yue Tian, Li Wang
1Department of General Surgery, Institute of Surgery Research, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400042, China. vdtong@163.com.
Objective:
To explore the availability of Da Vinci robotic-assisted transanal total mesorectal excision(taTME) for lower rectal cancer, which have been regarded as challenging situations in rectal cancer surgery.
Methods:
The medical records of a patient who underwent robotic-assisted transanal total mesorectal excision, coloanal anastomosis and ileostomy for lower rectal cancer on May 31st 2017 were reported.
Results:
The case was a sixty-three year-old male patient with a body mass index of 19.1 kg/m2. Preoperative examinations showed the tumor size was 4 cm×4 cm×3 cm. With a distance from the anal verge of 4 cm.The tumor was moderately differentiated and staged as cT3N2M0.taTME was performed successfully and the patient recovered quickly without any complications. The histological report showed a complete mesorectal excision with freee distal and circumferential margins.
Conclusion:
Robotic-assisted taTME is available. Robotics may help to overcome technical difficulties.
