DOI: 10.1055/s-00000049

Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery

Issue 01 · Volume 28 · March 2015 DOI: 10.1055/s-005-28650 Rectal Cancer Guest Editors: James W. Fleshman, MD, FACS, FASCRS, and Warren E. Lichliter, MD, FACS, FASCRS

Introduction to the Guest Editors

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Beck, David E.: Dr. James W. Fleshman and Dr. Warren E. Lichliter

Preface

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Fleshman, James W.; Lichliter, Warren E.: Rectal Cancer

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Fleshman, James W.; Smallwood, Nathan: Current Concepts in Rectal Cancer
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Patel, A.; Franko, Edward R.; Fleshman, James W.: Utilizing the Multidisciplinary Team for Planning and Monitoring Care and Quality Improvement
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Lichliter, Warren E.: Techniques in Total Mesorectal Excision Surgery
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Weaver, Katrina L.; Grimm, Leander M.; Fleshman, James W.: Changing the Way We Manage Rectal Cancer—Standardizing TME from Open to Robotic (Including Laparoscopic)
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Hakiman, Hekmat; Pendola, Michael; Fleshman, James W.: Replacing Transanal Excision with Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery and/or Transanal Minimally Invasive Surgery for Early Rectal Cancer
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Campa-Thompson, Molly; Weir, Robert; Calcetera, Natalie; Quirke, Philip; Carmack, Susanne: Pathologic Processing of the Total Mesorectal Excision
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Shiller, Michelle; Boostrom, Sarah: The Molecular Basis of Rectal Cancer