Whole mount microscopic sections reveal that Denonvilliers' fascia is one entity and adherent to the mesorectal fascia; Implications for the anterior plane in total mesorectal excision?

European Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 738-745

  Kraima, A C ^a,b   West, N P ^b   Treanor, D ^b   Magee, D R ^b   Rutten, H J ^c   Quirke, P ^b   Deruiter, M C ^a   Van De Velde, C J H ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autonomic nerves; Denonvilliers' fascia; Mesorectal fascia; Rectal cancer; Total mesorectal excision

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVE; AUTOPSY; DENONVILIER FASCIA; EXCISION; FASCIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOGASTRIC PLEXUS; LEVATOR ANI MUSCLE; MALE; MESENCHYME CELL; MESORECTAL FASCIA; PELVIS EXENTERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TISSUE SECTION; TOTAL MESORECTAL EXCISION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CADAVER; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; FETUS DEATH; HISTOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ABORTED FETUS; ADULT; CADAVER; COLLAGEN; FASCIA; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOLOGICAL PREPARATION TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM;

EID: 84929130563     PISSN: 07487983     EISSN: 15322157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejso.2015.03.224     Document Type: Article

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