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Category Archives: Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Sur

Transgastric cholecystectomy > Prototype endoscope > Olympus dual-channel endoscope > Up-down deflecting working channel > Left-right deflecting channel > Located below the lens > University of Missouri-Columbia > Deflectors at the distal tip > Gallbladder fundic retraction > Performed with one laparoscopic grasper

Does this prototype endoscope deflecting working channels allow transgastric cholecystectomy in pigs? Was the dissection of the gallbladder via the left-right channel enhanced with retraction via the up-down deflecting channel? Will the prototype make NOTES with current available instrumentation less cumbersome? IIP > read on here > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov… …Transgastric cholecystectomy has been shown to be [...]