[NOTES and single port access: surgical or marketing revolution?]

Rev Med Suisse. 2010 Jun 23;6(254):1298-300.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Promising new technologies are emerging in digestive surgery: Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) and Single Port Access Surgery. They both aim to limit the surgical morbidity by decreasing the number of parietal accesses. The feasibility in human is obviously demonstrated, but numerous issues remain concerning the safety of these techniques. Furthermore, the expected advantages are not clearly demonstrated until now in the literature. In the future, it will be advisable to standardize techniques, in order to allow large clinical studies and to limit the potential complications of these approaches.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Endoscopes, Gastrointestinal
  • Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal / methods*
  • Humans
  • Marketing