The Role of Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation (PTNS) in Low Anterior Resection Syndrome (LARS): A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Stavros Chrysovalantis Liapis Ioannis Baloyiannis Konstantinos Perivoliotis Dimitrios Lytras George E Theodoropoulos Georgios Tzovaras

Published in: Journal of gastrointestinal cancer (2023)

The application of PTNS in patients with LARS results in an improvement in multiple clinical parameters, including defecation functionality and quality of life. Due to several study limitations, further high quality RCTs are required to delineate the exact efficacy of PTNS.

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