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Robotic surgery with high dissection and low ligation technique for consecutive patients with rectal cancer following preoperative concurrent chemoradiotherapy

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Colorectal Disease, April 2016
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Title
Robotic surgery with high dissection and low ligation technique for consecutive patients with rectal cancer following preoperative concurrent chemoradiotherapy
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International Journal of Colorectal Disease, April 2016
DOI 10.1007/s00384-016-2581-y
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Ching-Wen Huang, Yung-Sung Yeh, Wei-Chih Su, Hsiang-Lin Tsai, Tak-Kee Choy, Ming-Yii Huang, Chun-Ming Huang, I-Chen Wu, Huang-Ming Hu, Wen-Hung Hsu, Yu-Chung Su, Jaw-Yuan Wang

Abstract

We present the preliminary experiences with and short-term outcomes of 50 consecutive patients with rectal cancer who underwent preoperative concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) followed by robotic surgery by using the high dissection and low ligation technique. Between October 2013 and August 2015, 50 patients with rectal cancer underwent robotic surgery after preoperative CCRT at a single institution. We performed D3 lymph node dissection and low tie ligation of the inferior mesenteric artery (IMA); this technique is referred to as the high dissection and low ligation technique. Clinicopathological features, perioperative parameters, and postoperative outcomes were retrospectively analyzed. FOLFOX regimen was used for preoperative CCRT in 26 (52 %) patients. Long-course radiotherapy was concurrently administered. A pathological complete response (pCR) was obtained in 14 (28 %) patients. Of the 50 patients, 23 (46 %) patients received intersphincteric resection (ISR) with coloanal anastomosis, 25 (50 %) patients received lower anterior resection (LAR), and 2 (4 %) patients received abdominoperineal resection (APR). Apical nodes were pathologically harvested in 47 (94 %) patients, and the median number of harvested apical lymph nodes was 2 (range, 0-10). The overall complication rate was 24 % (10 patients with 12 episodes), and most complications were mild. Roboic rectal surgery combined with appropriate preoperative CCRT helps in achieving a favorable pCR, circumferential resection margin, and sphincter preservation. Moreover, high dissection and low ligation of the IMA can be safely performed using the da Vinci(®) Surgical System safely which yield favorable short-term clinical outcomes.

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Unknown 41 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 7 17%
Researcher 5 12%
Student > Bachelor 5 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 10%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 2 5%
Other 5 12%
Unknown 13 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 19 46%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 5%
Computer Science 1 2%
Social Sciences 1 2%
Engineering 1 2%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 17 41%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 April 2016.
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#15,315,795
of 22,860,626 outputs
Outputs from International Journal of Colorectal Disease
#1,028
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#179,930
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Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Colorectal Disease
#9
of 42 outputs
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