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19039909

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-12-1
pubmed:abstractText
Four years ago, a new surgical technique was presented, the natural orifice trans-luminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES). This technique provides an incisionless operation. The surgical devices are inserted into the peritoneal cavity through the gastrointestinal or the urogenital tracts. Today, a cholecystectomy can be performed using an advanced endoscope inserted through the stomach or the vagina. The advantages of NOTES are: reduced post operative pain, no hernias, no surgical wounds infections and better cosmetic results. The disadvantages are: difficulties in achieving safe enterotomy closure or a leak proof anastomosis, it necessitates performing more operations compared to open or laparoscopic operations in order to obtain the skills for performing these operations, and difficulties of acquiring satisfactory endoscopic vision due to lack of advanced technology. Several NOTES operations have already been performed in humans. However, many other surgical procedures were tested in laboratory animals. Development and improvement of surgical devices may promote this surgical modality in the future.
pubmed:language
heb
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0017-7768
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
147
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
792-6, 837-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
[Natural orifice trans-luminal endoscopic surgery (notes)--a new era in general surgery].
pubmed:affiliation
Department of General Surgery Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel. ramelazary@hadassah.org.il
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Review