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World J Gastrointest Surg. Dec 27, 2025; 17(12): 112256
Published online Dec 27, 2025. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v17.i12.112256
Table 1 Data sources and search strategy
Data sources
Search strategy
PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, Chinese Biomedical Database, CNKI, VIP, and Wanfang Electronic Database"Rectal Neoplasms," "Colorectal Neoplasms,” "Colonic Neoplasms,” "Glutamine," and "randomized controlled trial" as subject terms combined with their corresponding free words for all possible combinations. Search terms were combined using the Boolean operators "AND" and "OR"
OthersAdditional articles were manually searched in the reference lists of articles selected for the full-text search. For overlapping authors, institutions, or patients, the most recent or highest-quality articles were selected


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