Oncologic results of conventional laparoscopic TME: is the intramesorectal plane really acceptable?

Affiliations

¹ Colorectal Surgery Unit, Department of General and Digestive Surgery, Hospital Universitario Doctor Peset, Valencia, Spain. aleix.martinez.perez@gmail.com.
² Department of Digestive, Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Henri Mondor University Hospital, AP-HP, Créteil, France.

Editorial

A Martínez-Pérez et al. Tech Coloproctol. 2018 Nov.

. 2018 Nov;22(11):831-834.

doi: 10.1007/s10151-018-1901-3. Epub 2018 Dec 17.

¹ Colorectal Surgery Unit, Department of General and Digestive Surgery, Hospital Universitario Doctor Peset, Valencia, Spain. aleix.martinez.perez@gmail.com.
² Department of Digestive, Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Henri Mondor University Hospital, AP-HP, Créteil, France.

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