Comment on: 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, St Olav's Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.
• ² Department of Surgery, New York Medical College, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, New York, USA.
• ³ Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Surgery, Josep Trueta Hospital, Girona, Spain.
• ⁵ Department of Surgery, Yeditepe University Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
• ⁶ Department of Surgery and Translational Medicine, Careggi Hospital, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
• ⁷ Division of Colorectal Surgery, Cedar Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
• ⁸ Department of Surgery, Linköping University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden.
• ⁹ Department of Surgery, Jacobi Medical Center, New York City Health Hospitals, New York, New York, USA.