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Robotic Low Anterior Resection

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With an estimated 39,220 new diagnoses in 2016, rectal cancer continues to be a common disease within the United States [1]. Treatment of rectal cancer involves a multidisciplinary approach that often includes surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy.

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  1. Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA, USA

    John V. Gahagan MD & Alessio Pigazzi MD, PhD

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  1. Department of Surgery, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA

    Yuman Fong

  2. Department of Surgery, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA

    Yanghee Woo

  3. Robotic Surgery, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Woo Jin Hyung

  4. Department of Surgery, Division of Urology and Urologic Oncology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA

    Clayton Lau

  5. Department of Surgery, Gastric and Mixed Tumor Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

    Vivian E. Strong

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Gahagan, J.V., Pigazzi, A. (2018). Robotic Low Anterior Resection. In: Fong, Y., Woo, Y., Hyung, W., Lau, C., Strong, V. (eds) The SAGES Atlas of Robotic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91045-1_24

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