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The surgical treatment of rectal cancer has progressed since the original description of the abdominoperineal resection by William Ernest Miles. The current indications include patients in which an R0 resection cannot be accomplished by a low anterior resection with coloanal anastomosis or an intersphincteric resection. The advent of a robotic surgical platform and instruments allows a total mesorectal excision with the benefit of precise and tailored division of the levator muscles from the abdominal approach under direct visualization.
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MacDavid, J., Bardakcioglu, O. (2019). Robotic Abdominoperineal Resection. In: Tsuda, S., Kudsi, O. (eds) Robotic-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96866-7_16
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