Patricia Sylla, Dana Sands, Alison Ricardo, Antoinette Bonaccorso, Alexandros Polydorides, Mariana Berho, John Marks, Justin Maykel, Karim Alavi, Karen Zaghiyan, Mark Whiteford, Elisabeth Mclemore, Sami Chadi, Sherief F Shawki, Scott Steele, Alessio Pigazzi, Matthew Albert, Teresa DeBeche-Adams, Erin Moshier, Steven D Wexner
BACKGROUND: Transanal TME (taTME) combines abdominal and transanal dissection to facilitate sphincter preservation in patients with low rectal tumors. Few phase II/III trials report long-term oncologic and functional results. We report early results from a North American prospective multicenter phase II trial of taTME (NCT03144765). METHODS: 100 patients with stage I-III rectal adenocarcinoma located ≤ 10 cm from the anal verge (AV) were enrolled across 11 centers...
December 2023: Surgical Endoscopy