Beyond the transanal total mesorectal excision moratorium: local and distant recurrence among patients operated for low rectal tumours-5-year follow-up from a Norwegian University Hospital

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway.
• ² Department of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Clinic of Cancer, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
• ³ University of Oslo, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Campus Ahus, Lørenskog, Norway.
• ⁴ Health Services Research Unit, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway.