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Hybrid Intervention > Laparoscopic Surgical Procedures > Endoscopic Surgical Procedures > Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery NOTES > Transluminal Flexible Endoscopic Procedure > Foregut and Urologic Surgery > University Hospitals of Cleveland > NOTES access is safe and feasible > Controlled human setting > Comparable to standard-of-care surgical techniques > NOTES exploration of the abdomen provides adequate visualization > Comparable to laparoscopy > Laparoscopic endoscopic hybrid surgeries > Foregut > Prostate > Bladder

Official Title: Prospective Evaluation of the Intraoperative Use of Translumenal Flexible Endoscopes During Combined Flexible and Laparoscopic Foregut and Urologic Surgery

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Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Treatment, Non-Randomized, Open Label, Parallel Assignment
Further study details as provided by University Hospitals of Cleveland:
Primary Outcome Measures: * Feasibility and safety
[ Time Frame: 30 days post-op ] […]

Operation Anubis > First “no scar” surgery > Natural Orifices Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery NOTES > Las Vegas > Society for the Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgery SAGES > Jacques Marescaux > Flexible endoscope for transvaginal removal of the gallbladder > Transvaginal Cholecystectomy

Will Laparoscopy be replaced by “no scar” surgery? Is it patient driven? Can it be done?

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On April 2nd 2007, at the University Hospital of Strasbourg, Professor Jacques Marescaux and his team successfully performed the first no scar surgery. This first human incisionless operation was carried out using a flexible endoscope for […]