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Laparoscopic vs open abdominoperineal resection in the multimodality management of low rectal cancers
Yu-Wei Wang, Li-Yong Huang, Cheng-Li Song, Chang-Hua Zhuo, De-Bing Shi, Guo-Xiang Cai, Ye Xu, San-Jun Cai, Xin-Xiang Li
Yu-Wei Wang, Li-Yong Huang, De-Bing Shi, Guo-Xiang Cai, Ye Xu, San-Jun Cai, Xin-Xiang Li, Department of Colorectal Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
Yu-Wei Wang, Li-Yong Huang, De-Bing Shi, Guo-Xiang Cai, Ye Xu, San-Jun Cai, Xin-Xiang Li, Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
Cheng-Li Song, Shanghai Institute for Minimally Invasive Therapy, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
Chang-Hua Zhuo, Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
Author contributions: Wang YW and Huang LY contributed equally to this study; Li XX, Cai GX, Xu Y, Cai SJ designed the research; Wang YW, Huang LY performed the research; Song CL, Zhuo CH contributed to data recording and analyzing tools; Wang YW, Li XX, Shi DB analyzed the data; Wang YW, Li XX wrote the paper.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Ethical Committee and Institutional Review Board of Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center.
Informed consent statement: All study participants, or their legal guardian, provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All of the authors declared no conflict-of-interest.
Data sharing statement: Technical appendix, statistical code, and dataset available from the corresponding author at lxx1149@163.com. Consent was not obtained, but the presented data are anonymized and the risk of identification is low.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Xin-Xiang Li, MD, PhD, Department of Colorectal Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Fudan University, No. 270 Dong An Road, Shanghai 200032, China. lxx1149@163.com
Telephone: +86-21-65642222
Received: March 19, 2015
Peer-review started: March 20, 2015
First decision: April 23, 2015
Revised: May 12, 2015
Accepted: July 15, 2015
Article in press: July 15, 2015
Published online: September 21, 2015
