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Category Archives: Closure of a gastrotomy

Closure of a gastrotomy > NOTES needs closure > Stable Platform > Organ retraction > Secure grasping > Energy source > Triangulation > Tissue approximation

What devices are needed for accessing digestive or other organs within the gastrointestinal tract and within the peritoneal cavity? What are the complications when instruments are passed into the gastrointestinal tract and out of the stomach for performing diagnostic or therapeutic surgical procedures? What is the early clinical experiencewith flexible endoscopic suturing techniques for […]

Closure of a gastrotomy > Transgastric tubal ligation > Olympus Medical > Eagle Claw VII > Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery NOTES > Natural Orifice Surgery Consortium for Assessment and Research NOSCAR > Survival experiment in a porcine model > Institute of Digestive Disease > The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Are the growing capabilities of therapeutic flexible endoscopy leading to a new era in treatment of gastrointestinal conditions? Are the most important areas for initial NOTES study safe peritoneal access and secure gastric closure, intraperitoneal contamination, image display and maintenance of spatial orientation, development of stable working platforms, physiologic perturbations, and tissue approximation methods? Do […]