Lateral Lymph Nodes as the Achilles Heel of Low Rectal Cancer Surgery After Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation Therapy: Are We Close to Solving the Riddle?

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¹ Department of Surgery, St Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
² Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill.

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Linda Ferrari et al. JAMA Surg. 2019.

. 2019 Sep 1;154(9):e192220.

doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2019.2220. Epub 2019 Sep 18.

¹ Department of Surgery, St Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
² Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill.

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