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Pelvic surgery brings about additional potential difficulties due to the fixed bony pelvis and the adjacent vascular, neurologic, and genitourinary structures. Further, patient- and disease-related factors such as large tumors, obesity, prior radiation, inflammation, and recurrent disease make a laparoscopic approach technically demanding. Here we will review how to approach the rectal dissection via minimally invasive surgery.
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Keller, D.S., Steele, S.R., Geisler, D.P. (2019). Difficult Laparoscopic Rectal Dissection. In: Lee, S., Steele, S., Feingold, D., Ross, H., Rivadeneira, D. (eds) Colorectal Surgery Consultation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11181-6_42
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