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Attention to nerve identification in rectal cancer surgery began in Japan in the 1970s, but it was an American surgeon [1, 2] between the 1970s and 1980s who proposed a combination of the nerve-sparing principle with the TME technique. The result was the preservation of urogenital function in 90% of the patients treated, without affecting the oncological outcome. Subsequently, the effectiveness, implementation and safety of the technique were confirmed by Moriya’s group [3], and the long-term functional results were documented by the famous Dutch TME trial.
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Masaro, S., Palmisano, S., Leon, P., de Manzini, N. (2013). Nerve-sparing Technique in Rectal Cancer. In: de Manzini, N. (eds) Rectal Cancer. Updates in Surgery. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2670-4_8
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