Cranial-to-caudal approach for radical lymph node dissection along the surgical trunk in laparoscopic right hemicolectomy

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1001-

  Matsuda, Takeru ^a   Iwasaki, Takeshi ^a   Mitsutsuji, Masaaki ^a   Hirata, Kenro ^a   Maekawa, Yoko ^a   Tanaka, Tomoko ^a   Shimada, Etsuji ^a   Kakeji, Yoshihiro ^b  

^a Graduate School of Health Sciences   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Cranial approach; Laparoscopy; Right hemicolectomy

Indexed keywords

COLON RESECTION; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PROCEDURES; SECONDARY;

COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS;

EID: 84939892522     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-014-3761-x     Document Type: Article

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