Laparoscopic-assisted radical left hemicolectomy for colon cancer

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Jeonghee Han et al. J Vis Surg. 2016.

. 2016 Aug 31:2:148.

doi: 10.21037/jovs.2016.08.05. eCollection 2016.

¹ Department of Surgery, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

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Laparoscopic-assisted radical left hemicolectomy.
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