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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
Daiki Okamoto1, Takeru Matsuda2,3, Ryuichiro Sawada1
1Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.
Shorter operative times are key to reducing complications after lateral pelvic lymph node dissection (LLND) for rectal cancer. Bilateral LLND did not increase complication risks, but longer surgeries did.
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