Short- and long-term outcomes of robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery for rectal cancer: results of a single high-volume center in Japan

The Clavien-Dindo Classification of Surgical Complications

Pierre A. Clavien, Jeffrey Barkun, Michelle Oliveira et al. · Annals of Surgery · 2009 · 11.3K citations

Medicine, Surgery, Clinical Classification Systems +13

Short-term endpoints of conventional versus laparoscopic-assisted surgery in patients with colorectal cancer (MRC CLASICC trial): multicentre, randomised controlled trial

P J Guillou, Philip Quirke, H. Thorpe et al. · The Lancet · 2005 · 3.1K citations

Medicine, Oncology, Surgery +14

Japanese Society for Cancer of the Colon and Rectum (JSCCR) guidelines 2016 for the treatment of colorectal cancer

Toshiaki Watanabe, Kei Muro, Yoichi Ajioka et al. · International Journal of Clinical Oncology · 2017 · 2.5K citations · Full text

Medicine, Oncology, Surgery +16

Laparoscopic versus open surgery for rectal cancer (COLOR II): short-term outcomes of a randomised, phase 3 trial

Martijn HGM van der Pas, Eva Haglind, Miguel A. Cuesta et al. · The Lancet Oncology · 2013 · 1.7K citations

Medicine, Oncology, Surgery +17

A Randomized Trial of Laparoscopic versus Open Surgery for Rectal Cancer

H. Jaap Bonjer, Charlotte L. Deijen, Gabor A. Abis et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 2015 · 1.4K citations · Full text

Medicine, Oncology, Surgery +17