Current status and future perspectives in laparoendoscopic single-site and natural orifice transluminal endoscopic urological surgery

International Journal of Urology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 410-431

  Autorino, Riccardo ^a,b   Stein, Robert J ^a   Lima, Estevão ^c   Damiano, Rocco ^d   Khanna, Rakesh ^a   Haber, Georges Pascal ^a   White, Michael A ^a   Kaouk, Jihad H ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Laparoendoscopic single site surgery (LESS); Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES); Scarless surgery; Urology

Indexed keywords

APPENDECTOMY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CRYOABLATION; CYSTECTOMY; CYSTOTOMY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GASTROSTOMY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROENDOSCOPIC SINGLE SITE SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; LITHOTOMY; NATURAL ORIFICE TRANSLUMINAL ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; NEPHRECTOMY; NONHUMAN; OPERATION DURATION; PELVIS SURGERY; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATECTOMY; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SAFETY; SCAR; STAPLER; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; URINARY TRACT SURGERY; UROLOGIC SURGERY; UROLOGY; WOUND HEALING;

CICATRIX; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPES; LAPAROSCOPY; UROLOGIC DISEASES; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 77951271519     PISSN: 09198172     EISSN: 14422042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2042.2010.02497.x     Document Type: Review

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