Total Mesorectal Excision-Does the Choice of Dissection Technique have an Impact on Pelvic Autonomic Nerve Preservation?

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1218-1224

  Kauff, Daniel W ^a   Kempski, Oliver ^a   Huppert, Sabine ^a   Koch, Klaus P ^b   Hoffmann, Klaus P ^c   Lang, Hauke ^a   Kneist, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b TRIER UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dissection techniques; Internal anal sphincter; Pelvic autonomic nerve preservation; Rectal cancer; TME

Indexed keywords

ANAL CANAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DISSECTION; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FOLLOW UP; HYPOGASTRIC PLEXUS; INNERVATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; RECTUM; RECTUM DISEASE; STANDARD; SWINE;

ANAL CANAL; ANIMALS; COLECTOMY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISSECTION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HYPOGASTRIC PLEXUS; MALE; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTUM; SWINE;

EID: 84861756579     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-012-1870-1     Document Type: Article

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