Presented by Jacqueline Van Laarhoven, MD, PhD at the SS15: Plenary 1 held during the 2017 SAGES Annual Meeting in Houston, TX on Friday, March 24, 2017
Keyword(s): abdominal obesity, abdominoperineal resection, adenocarcinoma, APR, circumferential resection margin, COLOR II trial, CRM, dissection, evaluation, Korean, LGD, local recurrence, low grade dysplasia, male, margins, mesorectum, neoadjuvant, pathological, pathologist, pelvis, preoperative imaging, prospective database, pursestring, QoL, quality of life, randomized controlled trials, RCT, rectal cancer, rectum, specimen, standard of care, staple line, survival, TaTME, technique, TNM, transanal, transanal total mesorectal excision, tumor, tumor node metastasis