title: Total mesorectal excision - a fashionable fable or a timely truth.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Isbister
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D012007:Rectum / Q000601:surgery*; D015996:Survival Rate