Transanal Robot-Assisted TME with Single-Port Abdominal Laparoscopy

Transanal total mesorectal excision (taTME) is a new approach to perform minimally invasive rectal resection. It has special applications in case of low tumors, narrow pelvis, obese patients, and anteriorly located cancers. It was developed to overcome some drawbacks of laparoscopic TME, basically the difficulty of a low division of the rectum with intracorporeal stapling with a known negative distal margin.