Transvesical endoscopic peritoneoscopy: intra-abdominal scarless surgery for urologic applications

For many abdominal procedures, advantages such as minimal scarring, reduced pain, and faster recovery have made laparoscopy the favored approach over traditional open surgery. The most recent minimally invasive approach is natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES), which limits morbidity because this surgery does not require incision. This article reviews the history, development, and current and future applications of NOTES in the field of urology.Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons(undefined

Nouvelles frontières de la chirurgie bariatrique: Chirurgie endoluminale et laparoscopie par une seule incision

Since the introduction of the natural orifices transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) in bariatric surgery, a development of new endoluminal devices for primary and revisional surgery invested the last years. Contemporaly, the tendency to reduce abdominal trauma, especially to improve the cosmetic results, induced the realization of laparoscopic procedures through a single abdominal incision. The authors report an overview of the actual endoluminal procedures (primary, revisional), the different endoscopes developed or under research, and the state-of-the-art single incision laparoscopy in bariatric surgery. © 2010 Springer Paris.SCOPUS: ar.jSCOPUS: ar.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe