Waldeyer's fascia: anatomical location and relationship to neighboring fasciae in retrorectal space.

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The term Waldeyer's fascia has caused confusion in surgery for rectal cancer. We have therefore dissected endopelvic fasciae to clarify the structure and location of Waldeyer's fascia, and to determine its anatomical relationships with adjacent fasciae.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Surg Radiol Anat

Title: Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA

Publisher: Springer Nature America, Inc

ISSN (Electronic): 1279-8517

ISSN (Print): 0930-1038

Publication date (Electronic): Dec 2011

Volume: 33

Issue: 10

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[1 ] Department of Surgery, The Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 600 Yishan Road, Shanghai, 200233, People's Republic of China.

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DOI: 10.1007/s00276-011-0887-6

PubMed ID: 21986989

SO-VID: 037a297a-cce3-4330-9063-04b0bd15f6d3

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