High tie versus low tie vascular ligation of the inferior mesenteric artery in colorectal cancer surgery: Impact on the gain in colon length and implications on the feasibility of anastomoses

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 515-521

  Bonnet, S ^a   Berger, A ^a,b   Hentati, N ^a   Abid, B ^a   Chevallier, J M ^a,b   Wind, P ^c,d   Delmas, V ^a   Douard, R ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

^c AVICENNE HOSPITAL   (France)

^d UFR SMBH Léonard de Vinci   (France)

Author keywords

0Surgery; Anatomy; Coloanal anastomosis; Colorectal anastomosis; Colorectal cancer; High tie; J pouch; Left colic artery; Low tie; Sigmoidectomy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CANCER SURGERY; COLON SURGERY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH TIE VASCULAR TRANSECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; LOW TIE VASCULAR TRANSECTION; MALE; PANCREAS; PUBIS SYMPHYSIS; RECTUM SURGERY; SACRUM; SIGMOIDECTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; LAPAROTOMY; LIGATION; METHODOLOGY; PROCTOCOLECTOMY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM; SIGMOID; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CADAVER; COLON, SIGMOID; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; LIGATION; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY, INFERIOR; PROCTOCOLECTOMY, RESTORATIVE; RECTUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84863572587     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DCR.0b013e318246f1a2     Document Type: Article

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