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Transanal Total Mesorectal Excision

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The management and quality of rectal cancer treatment has evolved in the last few decades. Most recent developments in this field have been technical through the use of laparoscopic and minimally invasive techniques. Whilst the benefit of laparoscopic surgery for colonic cancer has been proven there remains some controversy about it’s use in surgery for mid and low rectal cancers that require total mesorectal excision. In recent years transanal total mesorectal excision (TaTME) has been described which appears to circumnavigate some of the technical difficulties of laparoscopic mobilisation of the low rectum. This chapter describes indications, technical considerations and early outcome data about transanal TME.

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  1. Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Institute of Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (ICMDM), Hospital Clínic, AIS Channel, IDIBAPS, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Centro Esther Koplowitz, University of Barcelona, Villarroel 170, 08036, Barcelona, Spain

    F. Borja DeLacy MD, Marta Jiménez-Toscano MD, PhD & Antonio M. Lacy MD, PhD, FASCRS (Hon)

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  1. Colorectal Surgery, Singleton Hospital, Swansea, United Kingdom

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  2. Department of Colorectal Surgery, Singleton Hospital, Swansea, United Kingdom

    Dean Anthony Harris

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DeLacy, F.B., Jiménez-Toscano, M., Lacy, A.M. (2017). Transanal Total Mesorectal Excision. In: Beynon, J., Harris, D., Davies, M., Evans, M. (eds) Coloproctology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55957-5_8

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