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Robotic surgery for rectal cancer: may it improve also survival?

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    Dimosthenis Ziogas & Dimitrios Roukos

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Ziogas, D., Roukos, D. Robotic surgery for rectal cancer: may it improve also survival?. Surg Endosc 22, 1405–1406 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-008-9796-0

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