Laparoscopic and robotic total mesorectal excision in the treatment of rectal cancer. Brief review and personal remarks

Frontiers in Oncology

Volumn 4 MAY, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Bianchi, Paolo Pietro ^a   Petz, Wanda ^a   Luca, Fabrizio ^a   Biffi, Roberto ^a   Spinoglio, Giuseppe ^b   Montorsi, Marco ^c  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b C Arrigo Children's Hospital   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Laparoscopic surgery; Neoadjuvant therapy; Rectal cancer; Robotic surgery; Total mesorectal excision

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; REVIEW; ROBOTIC SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL MESORECTAL EXCISION;

EID: 84904630692     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2234943X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2014.00098     Document Type: Review

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