Surgery
Volume 133, Issue 1 , Pages 56-65 , January 2003

A prospective evaluation of anorectal function after total mesorectal excision in patients with a rectal carcinoma

,Accepted 19 June 2002.

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☆ Reprint requests: Guy E. E. Boeckxstaens, MD, Academic Medical Center, Dept of Gastroenterology, C2, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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doi: 10.1067/msy.2003.3

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