Instrumentation and surgical technique for an innovative safe sigmoid approach for NOTES

Minimally Invasive Therapy and Allied Technologies

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 336-340

  Fiolka, A ^a   Can, S ^a   Schneider, A ^a   Wilhelm, D ^a   Feussner, H ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

ISSA; NOTES; Overtube; Transanal approach; Transanal endoscopic microsurgery; Transrectal access

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; NATURAL ORIFICE TRANSLUMINAL ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; SIGMOID; STAPLER; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL CAVITY; ANIMALS; COLON, SIGMOID; ENDOSCOPES, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MICROSURGERY; RECTUM; SURGICAL STAPLERS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 57049187864     PISSN: 13645706     EISSN: 13652931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13645700802525088     Document Type: Article

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