ArticleSurgery today2021
A nomogram predicting the difficulty of laparoscopic surgery for rectal cancer.
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- Developing and external validating a prediction model using machine learning and logistic regression: informing the surgical approach for robotic surgery based on preoperative MRI.Journal of robotic surgery · 2025Article
- Machine learning combined with body composition predicts surgical difficulty in mid-low rectal cancer surgery.Annals of medicine · 2025Article
- Effect of Total Mesorectal Excision (TME) quality on 3-year overall survival in low rectal cancer based on the LASRE trial.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Influence of computed tomography-based pelvimetric parameters and surgical approaches on surgical difficulty in mid‑low rectal cancer.Wideochirurgia i inne techniki maloinwazyjne = Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques · 2025Article
- Factors influencing the difficulty of video-assisted thoracoscopic anterior mediastinal tumor resection via the subxiphoid approach.Journal of thoracic disease · 2025Article
- Predictive model of the surgical difficulty of robot-assisted total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer: a multicenter, retrospective study.Journal of robotic surgery · 2024Article
- Impact of Endoscopic Surgical Skill Qualification System-certified surgeons as operators in laparoscopic rectal cancer surgery in Japan: A propensity score-matched analysis (subanalysis of the EnSSURE study).Annals of gastroenterological surgery · 2024Article
- Establishment of Surgical Difficulty Grading System and Application of MRI-Based Artificial Intelligence to Stratify Difficulty in Laparoscopic Rectal Surgery.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Advances in pelvic imaging parameters predicting surgical difficulty in rectal cancer.World journal of surgical oncology · 2023Review
- Body mass index-based predictions and personalized clinical strategies for colorectal cancer in the context of PPPM.The EPMA journal · 2022Review
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Abstract
purposeThis study aimed to identify the risk factors associated with performing a difficult laparoscopic radical resection of rectal cancer, and to establish a predictive nomogram to help individual clinical treatment decisions.
methodsA total of 977 patients with rectal cancer who underwent laparoscopic radical resection between January 2014 and December 2016 were enrolled in this study. The difficulty of laparoscopic-assisted rectal resection (LARR) was defined according to the scoring criteria reported by Escal. A logistic regression analysis was performed to identify the variables that may affect the difficulty of LARR, and a nomogram predicting the surgical difficulty was created.
resultsA multivariate analysis demonstrated that a BMI > 28 kg/m
conclusionsThis study defined a difficult LARR and identified independent risk factors for a difficult operation and created a predictive nomogram for difficult LARR. This nomogram may facilitate the stratification of patients at risk for being associated with a difficult LARR for rectal cancer.
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