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29.05.2019 | Video Forum
A novel surgery: robotic transanal rectal mucosal harvest
verfasst von:
K. N. Howard, L. C. Zhao, A. C. Weinberg, M. Granieri, M. A. Bernstein, A. L. Grucela
Erschienen in:
Techniques in Coloproctology
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Ausgabe 7/2019
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Excerpt
Buccal mucosal grafts (BMG) are traditionally used in urethral reconstruction [
1]. There may be insufficient BMG for applications requiring large grafts, such as urethral stricture after gender-affirming phalloplasty. If rectal mucosa is used, there is less postoperative pain, no oral impairment, and grafts can be larger [
2,
3]. Laparoscopic transanal minimally invasive surgery (TAMIS) has been described for many applications [
4]. Due to technical challenges of harvesting a sizable graft within the lumen, we adopted a new robotic approach, which has been shown to be safe and feasible. To our knowledge, this is the first use of robotic TAMIS (R-TAMIS) for rectal mucosa harvest. …