Mesorectal fat area as a useful predictor of the difficulty of robotic-assisted laparoscopic total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer.
Yusuke YamaokaTomohiro YamaguchiYusuke KinugasaAkio ShiomiHiroyasu KagawaYushi YamakawaAkinobu FurutaniShoichi ManabeKakeru ToriiKohei KoidoKeita MoriPublished in: Surgical endoscopy (2018)
Mesorectal fat area may serve as a useful predictor of the difficulty of total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer.