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A robotic small bowel resection followed by Kono-S anastomosis was offered to the patient. Once we get close to finishing the posterior wall closing, we put in another stay stich that will be another 00 braided suture that is going to allow us to expose the area of the anastomosis that we are suturing at this moment. During the next step we will measure the diameter of the anastomosis, score the small bowel and confirm that the length of the scoring is around 7 cm. Scoring starts 1 cm to the end of the small bowel and finishes 7 cm proximal or distal to the starting point. [Extracted from the article]

I Dear Sir i , Oncological surgery for colon cancer involves resection of the tumour along with the adjacent mesentery and a lymphadenectomy appropriate to the location and stage of the tumour. Since Stages II and III cannot be accurately differentiated preoperatively in colon cancer, resection of the mesentery adjacent to the terminal ileum is important to achieve adequate complete excision of the mesentery [3]. A complete lymphadenectomy following the ileal branch of the superior mesenteric vein in the direction of the ileum can be safely performed, resecting an ileal length of between 10 and 15 cm, because most of peri-ileal lymph node metastases will be found in this area [4]. [Extracted from the article]