The impact of uterine manipulator assistance on intraoperative exposure and outcomes in laparoscopic rectal cancer surgery.

BMC Surg · 2025 · PMC12335177 · PMID 40783731

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Regarding oncologic outcomes, lymph node harvest was slightly lower in the manipulator group (18.2 ± 5.3 nodes) compared to the non-manipulator group (22.0 ± 9.0 nodes), although this did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.19).

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