This talk was presented at the 2018 SAGES Meeting/16th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery by Bruna Vailati during the Postgraduate Course: Total Mesorectal Excision – Optimizing Surgery and Managing Challenges on April 11 2018
Keyword(s): abdominoperineal resection, APR, chemoradiotherapy, circumferential resection margin, CRM, ELAPE, extralevator abdominoperineal excision, high resolution MRI, high risk, imaging, intersphincteric plane, levator muscles, local recurrence, MERCURY trial, nCRT, neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy, preoperative planning, rectal cancer, rectal tumor, specimen, sphincter preserving surgery, staging, surgical margins, TME, total mesorectal excision, treatment
What is a high-risk rectal cancer?–1:21 J Clin Oncol 2014
What is a CRM?–1:45 Br J Surg 2011
Intersphincteric plane–3:27 DCR 2011