Pure Transanal Laparoscopic TME without Abdominal Laparoscopy
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Frederic Bretagnol; Joel Leroy; Usmaan Hameed; Ntourakis Dimitrios
- Source
- Surgical Techniques in Rectal Cancer ISBN: 9784431555780
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test
Colorectal cancer
business.industry
Dissection (medical)
medicine.disease
Rectal Tumors
Surgery
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
medicine
030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
In patient
Narrow pelvis
Laparoscopy
business
Anal sphincter
- Language
Transanal rectal dissection was put forward by Toupet 60 years ago in 1950. The objective was to preserve the anal sphincter in low rectal tumors in patients with a narrow pelvis.