Impact of medial-to-lateral vs lateral-to-medial approach on short-term and cancer-related outcomes in laparoscopic colorectal surgery: A retrospective cohort study.

•This study reports that no one approach is superior to the other but the patient having surgery using medial-to-lateral approach have less post operative complications and higher number of lymph node harvest.•There is no long-term advantage to report.•Meta-analysis by Ding and colleagues reported that medial-to-lateral approach is better in terms of conversion rate and complications but give less number of lymph nodes in the specimen.