FRIDAY AUGUST 31TH 2018 - 11:10 - 13:10

 

(Format 10 mins each presentation with 10 mins debate/discussion)

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Moderators: Nunoo-Mensah (London, UK) & Narimantas Samalavicius (Klaipeda, Lithuania)

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• Mesh complications. Is it is time to abandon laparoscopic ventral mesh rectopexy or not? - Richard Fortunato​, Pittsburgh, USA (for abandon) vrs Carolynne Vaizey (against abandon) 

• Robotic colorectal surgery: A million-dollar seat success story - Pascal Gervaz, Geneva, Switzerland (Against) vrs Philippe Rouanet, Montpelier, France (For)

• East vrs West in rectal cancer management – Fumio Konishi, Saitama-ken, Japan vrs Marc Brozovich, Pittsburgh, USA

• TATME - Spin or No Spin – Sunil Patel Kingston, Canada (For Spin) vs Philippe Rouanet, Montpelier, France (No Spin)