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Robotic Abdominoperineal Resection: Cylindrical and Selective Cylindrical Approach

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This chapter will review the specific advantages that robotic technology has to offer when performing abdominoperineal resection (APR), which historically has been considered a challenging operation. Several operative techniques will be discussed, including (1) robotic rectal mobilization with conventional perineal dissection, (2) the use of transabdominal levator and extralevator transection to simplify the perineal dissection, and (3) selective eccentric extralevator transection for eccentrically located tumors.

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  1. Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, IL, USA

    Slawomir Marecik, Ahmed Al-Khamis, Kunal Kochar & John J. Park

  2. Department of Colorectal Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Slawomir Marecik

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Marecik, S., Al-Khamis, A., Kochar, K., Park, J.J. (2019). Robotic Abdominoperineal Resection: Cylindrical and Selective Cylindrical Approach. In: Bardakcioglu, O. (eds) Advanced Techniques in Minimally Invasive and Robotic Colorectal Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15273-4_13

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