ELAPE may be safely implemented into routine clinical practice with no increase in postoperative morbidity and considerable improvements in the quality of the resected specimen of patients with low rectal cancers.
Lateral node dissection for rectal cancer is a procedure that may follow standardized technical steps by using precise anatomical landmarks with the use of minimally invasive approach.
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