ABSTRACT
Even to the present terminology such as ileocolic resection, right hemicolectomy and colectomy are used in reference to removal of the right side of the colon [1–4]. More recently, the terms complete mesocolic excision (CME) and total/ partial right mesocolic excision are being increasingly used in place of conventional terminologies [5–22]. The emergence of this terminology followed that of "total mesorectal excision," a term that has widely (though not universally) substituted "anterior resection" or "proctosigmoidectomy."
