Thinking Outside the BoxNOTES: Gathering momentum
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Laparoendoscopic Single-site Surgery Simple Prostatectomy: Initial Report
2009, UrologyCitation Excerpt :With increasing levels of comfort in the laparoscopic environment, there have been continuous attempts to further decrease access-related morbidity. As part of the continual evolution of minimally invasive therapies, NOTES (Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery) was recently developed with the aim of performing surgical procedures without trauma to the abdominal wall through natural orifices.5,6 However, because of technical difficulties it did not achieve adequate diffusion and the approach for performing this surgical technique has changed with the emergence of intermediate or hybrid alternatives in which a single incision is made in the umbilicus through which several trocars or a trocar with multiple channels are placed.7-10
Laparo-endoscopic single site (LESS)
2009, Actas Urologicas EspanolasFlexible transgastric peritoneoscopy and liver biopsy: a feasibility study in human beings (with videos)
2008, Gastrointestinal EndoscopyCitation Excerpt :None of the patients exhibited any signs or symptoms of intra-abdominal or trocar wound infection during a 1-month follow-up after the procedure. The concept of NOTES uses a transluminal approach to the peritoneal cavity, without the need for abdominal-wall incisions.28-30 Current NOTES knowledge is based on multiple abstracts plus 27 full-length peer-reviewed articles that summarize a total of 202 animal experiments, as well as abstracts or press releases that announced human transvaginal and transgastric cholecystectomies, and 1 published case report of a human transgastric PEG-rescue procedure.1-27,31-34
NOTES: Human Experience
2008, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North AmericaCitation Excerpt :The primary responsibility was to oversee the development of this field into mainstream clinical practice in humans in a scientific manner with limited preventable errors. The proceedings were published as a white paper and the first international conference on NOTES was held in Scottsdale, Arizona, in March 2006 [17]. The successful exploration of a multitude of procedures in the porcine model has served as an adequate platform for NOTES in humans.
NOTES: A Gastroenterologist's Perspective
2007, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North AmericaCitation Excerpt :During that meeting, the term NOTES was coined and has come to be widely adopted. In the past couple of years, several reports of successful NOTES procedures have appeared with variations in the route of access (transcolonic, transvesical) and enthusiasm and interest in this new modality is apparent at national meetings of gastroenterologists and surgeons [6–21]. Clinical trials are in preparation at various centers and will no doubt get further impetus once the initial human experiences have undergone peer review and publication.