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Category Archives: David Rattner

New surgical techniques > Avoid incisions altogether > Replace large incisions with several small ones > Shortening hospital stays and recovery time > Reducing pain and risks > Leaving much smaller scars > Incisionless Natural Orifice Surgery > NOTES needs closure > Nathaniel Soper > NOS natural orifice surgery products > NOSCAR Natural Orifice Surgery Consortium for Assessmen > NOTES > Natural Orifice Transgastric Endoscopic Surgery NOTES > No Scar Group SAGES > Navigation inside the stomach and abdominal cavity > Per vagina > Natural Orifice Surgery NOS

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?

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