Presented by Hye Jin Kim at the SS10: Robotics held during the 2017 SAGES Annual Meeting in Houston, TX on Thursday, March 23, 2017
Keyword(s): anal verge, chemoradiation therapy, comparative study, CRT, dissection, EBL, estimated blood loss, external iliac, grasper, internal iliac, IPSS score, lap approach, laparoscopic approach, laparoscopic lateral pelvic LND, laparoscopic lateral pelvic lymph node dissection, laparoscopy, locally advanced rectal cancer, metastasis, morbidity, MRI, obturator nerve, operative outcomes, pathology, rectal cancer, rectum, robotic lateral pelvic LND, robotic lateral pelvic lymph node dissection, robotic TME, short-term outcomes, tumor, urinary function, urinary retention