Local Recurrence After Pure NOTES Transanal Total Mesorectal Excision for Early Rectal Cancer

J Gastrointest Surg. 2022 Jun;26(6):1318-1320. doi: 10.1007/s11605-021-05229-1. Epub 2022 Jan 16.

Haipeng Meng¹, Longyi Chen^#², Ruichao Geng², Fan Yang², Rui Wang², Yanling Xu^#³, Gang Yu^#^{4

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¹ Department of General Surgery, Qilu Hospital (Qingdao), Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, 758 Hefei Road, Qingdao, 266035, Shandong, China.
² Department of Colorectal Surgery, Zibo Municipal Hospital, Shandong, 255400, China.
³ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Qilu Hospital (Qingdao), Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, 758 Hefei Road, Qingdao, 266035, Shandong, China.
⁴ Department of General Surgery, Qilu Hospital (Qingdao), Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, 758 Hefei Road, Qingdao, 266035, Shandong, China. ygzb2020@163.com.
⁵ Department of Colorectal Surgery, Zibo Municipal Hospital, Shandong, 255400, China. ygzb2020@163.com.

^# Contributed equally.

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Keywords: Local recurrence; Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery; Rectal cancer; Transanal total mesorectal excision.

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