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The role of locoregional resection with TEM to treat small nonadvanced low rectal cancer: the key point to obtaining good results

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  1. Clinica di Chirurgia Generale e Metodologia Chirurgica, Ospedali Riuniti, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Conca 1, Ancona, 60121, Italy

    Giovanni Lezoche

  2. Sapienza University of Rome, Viale del Policlinico 155, Rome, 00141, Italy

    Alessandro M. Paganini & Emanuele Lezoche

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Lezoche, G., Paganini, A.M. & Lezoche, E. The role of locoregional resection with TEM to treat small nonadvanced low rectal cancer: the key point to obtaining good results. Surg Endosc 26, 584–585 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-011-1922-8

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