This talk was presented at the 2018 SAGES Meeting/16th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery by Joel Leroy during the Postgraduate Course: Total Mesorectal Excision – Optimizing Surgery and Managing Challenges on April 11 2018
Keyword(s): air leak test, anastomotic leak, anus, bleeding, bowel, circular stapler, colon, end-to-end anastomosis, end-to-side anastomosis, failure, ICG, indocyanine green, injury, ischemia, left colectomy, mesorectum, minimally invasive surgery, MIS, morbidity, pursestring, rectal stump, rectal surgery, rectum, SFM, splenic flexure mobilization, TME, total mesorectal excision, vascularization