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Activity Steps

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Description

Method of Participation in the Learning Process/Evaluation Method

Successful completion of this activity includes reading the entire article and successfully completing the post-quiz and an evaluation form.

Getting the Most out of the Activity

As you prepare to participate in this activity, please reflect on your practice and your patients and identify clinical challenges you hope to have addressed.

While participating in the training, identify ways you can use newly acquired knowledge, strategies, and skills to enhance patient outcomes and your own professional development.

Learning Objectives

After completing this continuing education activity you will be able to:

  1. Describe the noninferiority trial and compare the relapse-free survival (RFS) between mesorectal excision (ME) with or without LLND.
  2. Identify lateral pelvic lymph nodes and recognize lateral pelvic lymph node metastasis and understand lateral lymph node dissection (LLND) and know the indications of LLND.

Disclosures

The authors, faculty, and staff in a position to control the content of this CME activity and their spouses/life partners (if any) have disclosed that they have no financial relationships with, or financial interest in, any commercial organizations pertaining to this educational activity.

Price: $29.00

Credits:

  • ACCME 1.0 CME

Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Planner
Professions: Physician
Test Code: AOS0817
Published: August 2017
Expires: 1/1/2026
Sources: Annals of Surgery
Required Passing Score: 4/5 (80%)
Authors: Shin Fujita, MD, Junki Mizusawa, ME, Yukihide Kanemitsu, MD, Masaaki Ito, MD, Yusuke Kinugasa, MD, Koji Komori, MD, Masayuki Ohue, MD, Mitsuyoshi Ota, MD, Yoshihiro Akazai, MD,Manabu Shiozawa, MD, Takashi Yamaguchi, MD, Hiroyuki Bandou, MD, Kenji Katsumata, MD, Kohei Murata, MD, Yoshihito Akagi, MD, Nobuhiro Takiguchi, MD, Yoshihisa Saida, MD, Kenichi Nakamura, MD, Haruhiko Fukuda, MD, Takayuki Akasu, MD, and Yoshihiro Moriya, MD
Categories: Surgical
Specialties: Surgery
Topics: Lateral Lymph Node Dissection , Rectal Cancer