Pelvic Floor Reconstruction with Bilateral Gracilis Flaps Following Extralevator Abdominoperineal Excision: A video Vignette.
Author
Jones, Conor S
Nowers, Jennifer
Smart, Neil J.
Coelho, James
Watts, Andrew
Daniels, Ian R.
Date
2017-10-20Journal
Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and IrelandType
LetterPublisher
WIleyDOI
10.1111/codi.13933Rights
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The patient in this video was diagnosed with a locally invasive rectal carcinoma and had received neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy prior to surgery. The defect seen on the right results from the abdominoperineal excision, performed in the extralevator plane with the abdominal part of the procedure being performed laparoscopically. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.