Essential anatomy for lateral lymph node dissection

In Western countries, the gold-standard therapeutic strategy for rectal cancer is preoperative chemoradiotherapy (CRT) following total mesorectal excision (TME), without lateral lymph node dissection (LLND). However, preoperative CRT has recently been reported to be insufficient to control lateral l...

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Main Authors: Yuichiro Yokoyama, Hiroaki Nozawa, Kazuhito Sasaki, Koji Murono, Shigenobu Emoto, Hiroyuki Matsuzaki, Shinya Abe, Yuzo Nagai, Yuichiro Yoshioka, Takahide Shinagawa, Hirofumi Sonoda, Daisuke Hojo, Soichiro Ishihara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korean Society of Coloproctology 2023-12-01
Series:Annals of Coloproctology
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Online Access:http://coloproctol.org/upload/pdf/ac-2023-00164-0023.pdf