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Robotic Left Colectomy

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In this chapter, we describe our approach to robotic left colectomy with an intracorporeal anastomosis.

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  1. Department of Surgery Colorectal Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

    Felipe Quezada-Diaz & Emmanouil P. Pappou

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA

    Joseph Kim

  2. Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

    Julio Garcia-Aguilar

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Quezada-Diaz, F., Pappou, E.P. (2020). Robotic Left Colectomy. In: Kim, J., Garcia-Aguilar, J. (eds) Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques for Cancers of the Gastrointestinal Tract. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18740-8_21

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