ReviewAnnals of gastroenterological surgery2020
Comparison of the perioperative outcomes of laparoscopic surgery, robotic surgery, open surgery, and transanal total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer: An overview of systematic reviews.
Review in Annals of gastroenterological surgery, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- Clinical effectiveness of robotic versus laparoscopic and open surgery: an overview of systematic reviews.BMJ open · 2024Pooled it
- Robotic-Assisted Surgery for Rectal Cancer: An Expedited Summary of the Clinical Evidence.Ontario health technology assessment series · 2024Pooled it
- Intraoperative neuromonitoring in rectal cancer surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of colorectal disease · 2021Pooled it
- Machine learning for predicting surgical difficulty of laparoscopic total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer: integrating MR-based pelvimetry and peritoneal reflection.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- A novel technique for low-rectal cancer: Pushing the anus in laparoscopic radical resection.Medicine · 2025Observational
- Biochemical implications of robotic surgery: a new frontier in the operating room.Journal of robotic surgery · 2024Review
- Analysis of 10 years of open, laparoscopic, and robotic rectal surgeries in the community setting.Surgery open science · 2023Article
- Essential updates 2020/2021: Advancing precision medicine for comprehensive rectal cancer treatment.Annals of gastroenterological surgery · 2023Review
- Comparison of the perioperative outcomes of laparoscopic surgery, robotic surgery, open surgery, and transanal total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer: An overview of systematic reviews.Annals of gastroenterological surgery · 2020Review
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Abstract
Regarding the surgical approaches for rectal cancer, many techniques have been reported in randomized controlled trials, meta-analyses, and reviews of comparisons between two techniques, e.g. open surgery vs laparoscopic surgery, laparoscopic surgery vs robotic surgery, or laparoscopic surgery vs transanal total mesorectal excision. Since robotic surgery and transanal total mesorectal excision were developed after laparoscopic surgery had become an established minimally invasive technique, they have each been compared with laparoscopic surgery. Therefore, a review was performed to compare the surgical outcomes of robotic surgery and transanal total mesorectal excision, and to perform such comparisons among ≥3 of the above mentioned approaches, in the expectation that this review will serve as a reference for aiding treatment selection in future. The results of the current review suggest that all of the examined procedures have advantages and disadvantages, but that there are no decisive factors that could be used to select one procedure over any other. At the present time it cannot be demonstrated that laparoscopic surgery, robotic surgery, transanal total mesorectal excision, or open surgery is superior to the other techniques, and it is important to select the best technique for each patient from among those that a surgeon can perform. It is also important to maintain a flexible attitude that allows new techniques to be adopted as needed in the future.
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