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.
Annals of Medicine and Surgery(2018)
Abstract
•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.
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Key words
Colorectal cancer,Method of surgery,Lateral mobilisation,Mesocolon,Medial mobilisation,survival
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