Operative blood loss and use of blood products after full robotic and conventional low anterior resection with total mesorectal excision for treatment of rectal cancer.

J Robot Surg · 2011 · PMC3098974 · PMID 21765876

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Hemoglobin drop was much less in the robotic group, thus confirming a significant superiority of robot-assisted LAR in this clinical setting, whereas overall use of blood products showed a trend in favor of the R-LAR patients (12 vs. 1 units of packed red blood cells, P = 0.051).

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