Propensity score-matched comparison between complete mesocolic excision and classic right hemicolectomy for colon cancer. An Italian and Egyptian experience.

CONCLUSIONS: Right colon cancer patients undergoing CME benefitted from more oncological adequacy, with no increased postoperative complication rate, a decreased locoregional recurrence rate, and a better long-term outcome than patients operated on with the conventional procedure. PMID: 29154513 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Minerva Chirurgica - Category: Surgery Tags: Minerva Chir Source Type: research