Current Status of Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES)

Current Problems in Surgery

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 630-668

  Chukwumah, Chike ^a   Zorron, Ricardo ^b   Marks, Jeffrey M ^a   Ponsky, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b Professor of Surgery   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBON DIOXIDE; HYDROGEN; METHYLENE BLUE; NITINOL; POVIDONE IODINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLIP; COLONOSCOPY; CYSTOSCOPY; DISINFECTION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC TRANSGASTRIC LYMPHADENECTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC TRANSILLUMINATOR; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL SURGERY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPE; GASTROINTESTINAL RADIOGRAPHY; GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY; GASTROTOMY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NATURAL ORIFICE TRANSLUMINAL ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; OVER THE SCOPE CLIP; PANCREAS RESECTION; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONITIS; POSTCLOSURE LEAK TEST; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; ROBOTICS; SEROSA; STAPLER; STOMACH LAVAGE; STOMACH MUCOSA; STOMACH PERFORATION; SUBMUCOSA; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY; SURGICAL TRAINING; SUTURING METHOD; TRANSCOLONIC APPROACH; TRANSESOPHAGEAL APPROACH; TRANSGASTRIC APPROACH; TRANSVAGINAL APPROACH; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TROCAR; WOUND CLOSURE;

ENDOSCOPES; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; ROBOTICS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953994977     PISSN: 00113840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpsurg.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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