Open Access"Down-to-Up" transanal NOTES Total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer: Preliminary series of 9 patients
Author(s) -
Ricardo Zorrón,
Henrique Neubarth Phillips,
Greg Wynn,
Manoel Galvao Neto,
Djalma Ernesto Coelho,
Ricardo Cortez Vassallo
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of minimal access surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0972-9941
pISSN - 1998-3921
DOI - 10.4103/0972-9941.134878
Subject(s) - medicine , total mesorectal excision , surgery , dissection (medical) , anastomosis , colorectal cancer , cancer
Applications for natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) to access the abdominal cavity have increased in recent years. Despite potential advantages of transanal and transcolonic NOTES for colorectal pathology, it has not been widely applied in the clinical setting. This study describes a series of nine patients for whom we performed transanal retrograde ("Down-to-Up") total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer.