Low presence of intraluminal cancer cells in rectal washout during transanal total mesorectal excision.

Sharaf Karim Perdawood¹, Rebecca Svensson Neufert², Jens Kroeigaard¹, Pierre Jean-Claude Maina¹, Susanne Eiholm³, Fredrik Jörgren², Pamela Buchwald4

¹Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Slagelse Hospital, Denmark
²Department of Surgery, Helsingborg Hospital, Helsingborg, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
³Department of Histopathology, Region Zealand, Denmark
4Department of Surgery, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Lund University, Lund, Sweden