Figure 15From: Definition of compartment-based radical surgery in uterine cancer: radical hysterectomy in cervical cancer as ‘total mesometrial resection (TMMR)’ by M Höckel translated to robotic surgery (rTMMR)The vascular mesometrium can now be flipped dorsally without elevating the ureter and the vesicouterine vascular junction can be exposed from laterally on the left (the vesicouterine ligament). The connecting vessels and the accompanying connective tissue are dissected at their free part close to their junction to the bladder vessels.Back to article page