337. TransAnal Endoscopic Proctectomy (TAEP) – An innovative procedure for difficult resection of rectal tumors in men with narrow pelvis

A systematic review of transanal total mesorectal excision: is this the future of rectal cancer surgery?

“…This left 83 studies that were investigated in detail in full text [27][28][29]. Of these 83 references, after reviewing the studies in detail the following studies were excluded for the following reasons: 16 studies were review articles [47][48][49][50]55,62,66,69,71,73,75,85,88,93,94,107], 12 were abstracts of published case series already included in the analysis [56,59,60,65,86,87,91,97,98,100,102,110], six were articles describing the surgical technique or videos [51,68,72,83,99,103], six were reporting on TaTME performed on cadavers [32][33][34][35][36][37], three were describing TaTME performed on animals [27][28][29], two were describing the anatomy for TaTME …”

“…This left 83 studies that were investigated in detail in full text . Of these 83 references, after reviewing the studies in detail the following studies were excluded for the following reasons: 16 studies were review articles , 12 were abstracts of published case series already included in the analysis , six were articles describing the surgical technique or videos , six were reporting on TaTME performed on cadavers , three were describing TaTME performed on animals , two were describing the anatomy for TaTME and one was reporting on a study protocol design for comparing TaTME with LapTME . One case report was excluded because the same patient was reported in a case series published by the same group.…”