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
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