Mizrahi, I.
Abu-Gazala, M.
Rickles, A. S.
Fernandez, L. M.
Petrucci, A.
Wolf, J.
Sands, D. R.
Wexner, S. D.
Article History
Received: 6 June 2018
Accepted: 31 July 2018
First Online: 10 August 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Steven D. Wexner is a paid consultant for NOVADAQ and for Karl Storz Endoscopy, Medtronic, and Novodaq, and is entitled to royalty payments from Intuitive Surgical, Karl Storz Endoscopy and Medtronic. The other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The institution’s prospectively maintained institutional review board (IRB)-approved database was retrospectively queried for all patients who underwent an elective laparoscopic LAR for a rectal neoplasm with a colorectal or coloanal anastomosis < 5 cm from the anal verge between 2013 and 2016 by a single surgeon (SDW).
: For this type of study, informed consent is not required.