"Down-to-Up" transanal NOTES Total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer: Preliminary series of 9 patients | Zendy

Ricardo Zorrón | Zendy; Henrique Neubarth Phillips | Zendy; Greg Wynn | Zendy; Manoel Galvão Neto | Zendy; Djalma Ernesto Coelho | Zendy; RicardoC. Vassallo | Zendy

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"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 Galvão Neto,

Djalma Ernesto Coelho,

RicardoC. 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.

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