Robot-assisted total mesorectal excision: Is there a learning curve?

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2471-2476

  Akmal, Yasir ^a   Baek, Jeong Heum ^a,b   McKenzie, Shaun ^a   Garcia Aguilar, Julio ^a   Pigazzi, Alessio ^a,c  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Gachon University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning curve; Rectal cancer; Robotic; Total mesorectal excision

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEARNING CURVE; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROBOTICS; SURGEON; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY; TOTAL MESORECTAL EXCISION;

EID: 84866137037     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-012-2216-5     Document Type: Article

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