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Objective: To investigate the short-term clinical efficacy and complications of laparoscopic radical right hemicolectomy via the head-tail and medial approaches. Methods: Clinical data of 91 patients admitted for laparoscopic radical right hemicolectomy at Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University between January 2015 and December 2019 were retrospectively analyzed. Of those patients, 50 and 41 patients underwent laparoscopic radical right hemicolectomy via the head-tail and medial approaches, respectively. According to the clinical indicators such as operation time, amount of intraoperative blood loss, rate of injury of Henle trunk and its branches (an indicator of conversion to laparotomy), number of lymph nodes dissected, number of positive lymph nodes, postoperative intestinal function recovery time, postoperative abdominal drainage tube removal time, postoperative hospitalization time, and postoperative complications, the potential advantages of laparoscopic radical right hemicolectomy via the head-tail approach were evaluated and analyzed. Results: The operation time was significantly shorter [180 (150-188) min vs. 210 (180-255) min, P0.05). Conclusions: Compared with the commonly used medial approach in clinical practice, laparoscopic radical right hemicolectomy via the head-tail approach showed obvious improvement with respect to operative time, amount of intraoperative blood loss, and the injury rate of Henle trunk and its branches. Thus, the head-tail approach had higher operative safety and is thus worthy of further clinical application.