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Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES)

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Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) can be performed through transvaginal, transgastric, transrectal, transvesical, or transesophageal approaches. As a skin scar-free surgery, it eliminates the complications related to incisions, yet brings new challenges, unseen before in laparoscopic surgery. Although NOTES is felt to represent a logical evolution in minimally invasive surgery and over 2,000 NOTES cases have been performed since the first description, technical, logistical, and other challenges have limited its use and currently many of the procedures are hybrid.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Hacettepe University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey

    Mehmet Mahir Ozmen M.D., M.S., F.A.C.S., F.R.C.S. (Professor of Surgery)

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

    Rifat Latifi

  2. Department of Surgery, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

    Peter Rhee

  3. Department of Surgery, Professor of Surgery, Tucson, Arizona, USA

    Rainer W.G. Gruessner

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Ozmen, M.M. (2015). Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES). In: Latifi, R., Rhee, P., Gruessner, R. (eds) Technological Advances in Surgery, Trauma and Critical Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2671-8_32

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