Surgery
Volume 133, Issue 1 , Pages 66-67 , January 2003

Editorial comment: Total mesorectal excision for all rectal cancers?

,Accepted 24 August 2002.

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☆ Reprint requests: John H. Pemberton, MD, Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Mayo Clinic, East 6-A, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905.

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doi: 10.1067/msy.2003.1

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