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Closure of the retroperitoneal space in laparoscopic anterior resection with FLEXDEX™

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  1. Department of Surgery, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

    Mohammad Faraz Khan, Ed Murphy, Alice Moynihan & Ronan A. Cahill

  2. UCD Centre for Precision Surgery, Section of Surgery, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Mohammad Faraz Khan & Ronan A. Cahill

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Prof Cahill receives speaker fees from Stryker and holds educational and surgical development grant funding from Intuitive and with IBM. The other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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FLEXDEX is a CE marked device and was used here with Full Departmental Approval.

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Patients undergoing surgery for fully consented for the operative steps in their entirety.

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Khan, M.F., Murphy, E., Moynihan, A. et al. Closure of the retroperitoneal space in laparoscopic anterior resection with FLEXDEX™. Tech Coloproctol 23, 1177–1178 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10151-019-02118-3

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