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Mesocolic Resection in Colon Cancer

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This chapter describes mesocolon excision in colon cancer surgery and the anatomical principles underlying this approach.

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  1. Department of Colorectal Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA

    Felipe Quezada-Díaz, Winson Jianhong Tan & J. Joshua Smith

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  1. Department of Medicine, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, IL, USA

    Eli D. Ehrenpreis

  2. Department of Surgery, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

    John C. Alverdy

  3. Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, USA

    Steven D. Wexner

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Quezada-Díaz, F., Tan, W.J., Joshua Smith, J. (2021). Mesocolic Resection in Colon Cancer. In: Ehrenpreis, E.D., Alverdy, J.C., Wexner, S.D. (eds) The Mesenteric Organ in Health and Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71963-0_37

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