Dr. Yoshiharu Sakai

Colorectal Surgery

MD, President of the JSES, Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University, Directo, Laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer, Red Cross Hospital Osaka, Japan

Japan

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Selected publications from PubMed

Interaction Between Operator and Assistant Certification Is Associated With Local Recurrence After Laparoscopic Rectal Cancer Surgery: An Ancillary Analysis of the EnSSURE Study.

Sakimura Y, Bando H, Hida K, Fukuoka T, Funakoshi T, Teraishi F, Uehara K, Inoue Y, Suzuki N, Ichikawa N, Iijima H, Taketomi A, Sakai Y, Naitoh T, Takemasa I, EnSSURE study group collaboratives within the Japan Society of Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery

Ann Gastroenterol Surg. 2026 Aug 12 doi: 10.1002/ags3.70265.

Clinical practice guidelines for telesurgery, 2nd Edition : Committee for the Promotion of Remote Surgery Implementation, Japan Surgical Society.

Mori M, Hirano S, Hakamada K, Oki E, Ito T, Urushidani S, Uyama I, Eto M, Ebihara Y, Kanemitsu Y, Kawashima K, Kanno T, Kitsuregawa M, Kinugasa Y, Kitatsuji H, Sato T, Sato F, Shimokawa T, Shimamoto H, Takiguchi S, Takemasa I, Tokunaga M, Nakauchi M, Noshiro H, Masaki Mandai, Koshi Mimori, Morohashi H, Yoshizumi T, Watanabe G, Sakai Y, Ikeda N, Taketomi A

Surg Today. 2026 Jul;56(7):1047-1065 doi: 10.1007/s00595-026-03295-z.

Prospective Multicenter Comprehensive Survey on Male Sexual Dysfunction following Laparoscopic, Robotic, and Transanal Approaches for Rectal Cancer (the LANDMARC Study).

Numata M, Yamaguchi T, Shiomi A, Inada R, Shiozawa M, Kazama K, Hotchi M, Yamamoto D, Hasegawa S, Miguchi M, Ohnuma S, Uehara K, Munakata K, Kinugasa Y, Horie H, Yamaguchi S, Takeshima T, Hida K, Akagi T, Kagawa H, Oyamada S, Rino Y, Sakai Y, Watanabe M, Naitoh T, LANDMARC Collaborative Study Group of the Japan Society of Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery

Ann Surg. 2026 May 1;283(5):869-877 doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000006574.

Standardizing Upper Abdominal Fascial Terminology: A Transdisciplinary Expert Consensus From the Japanese Society for Endoscopic Surgery.

Watanabe J, Shinohara H, Obama K, Kinoshita T, Nagakawa Y, Nakata K, Kondo T, Miki J, Egi H, Sakai Y, Kitagawa Y

Asian J Endosc Surg. 2026 Jan-Dec;19(1):e70348 doi: 10.1111/ases.70348.

Multidisciplinary Trends in Endoscopic Surgery in Japan: Insights From the 17th Nationwide Survey.

Shiroshita H, Takiguchi S, Taniguchi F, Hinata N, Uemura T, Eguchi S, Kurokawa Y, Kinugasa Y, Akagi T, Tsukamoto S, Kanehira A, Seki Y, Ieiri S, Iwazaki M, Sato Y, Kitamura K, Nakajo A, Okamoto K, Miyajima A, Takahashi H, Takatsuki M, Takeda T, Fukutake K, Hoshikawa Y, Matsumoto I, Akira S, Inomata M, Kitano S, Watanabe M, Sakai Y, Kitagawa Y

Asian J Endosc Surg. 2026 Jan-Dec;19(1):e70302 doi: 10.1111/ases.70302.

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Low Anterior Resection

Rectal cancer accounts for approximately one third of all colorectal cancers. Since the early 1990s, total mesorectal excision (TME) has remained the gold standard surgical treatment for rectal cancer, following Prof. Heald’s detailed description of the technique in 1986. In this era of the multidisciplinary approach, the quality of TME has been shown to be a significant prognostic factor for cancer-specific survival. The TME technique has evolved from traditional ‘open’ to minimal access approaches, such as laparoscopic, robotic and more recently, transanal techniques. However, acceptance of one option as better than or even equivalent to the others remains a matter of debate.

With Medtronic

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Sep 2018

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