%0 Journal Article
%T Extralevator abdominoperineal excision (Elape): A retrospective cohort study
%A Ahmed Hammad
%A Alison Bradley
%A Arijit Mukherjee
%A Zulfiqar Hanif
%J Archive of "Annals of Medicine and Surgery".
%D 2016
%R 10.1016/j.amsu.2016.07.016
%X Extralevator abdominoperineal excision (ELAPE) is relatively new surgical technique for low rectal cancers. It is a more radical approach than conventional abdominoperineal excision (APE) with potentially better oncological outcome. The aim of this study was to analyse short term results of ELAPE compared with conventional abdominoperineal excision
%K ELAPE
%K Extralevator
%K Abdominoperineal excision
%K Rectal cancer
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4971229/