Woojin Ahn, PhD, Saurabh Dargar, Tansel Halic, PhD, Ganesh Sankaranarayanan, PhD, Kurt Roberts, MD, Suvranu De, ScD. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy; University of Central Arkansas, Conway; Yale University, New Haven. INTRODUCTION The first virtual reality simulator for the Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES), VTESTTM was developed to train surgeons in the hybrid transvaginal NOTES […]
Beatriz Martin-Perez, MD, Francisco Quinteros, MD, Henry Schoonyoung, MD, Lawna Hunter, BA, George Nassif, DO, Matthew Albert, MD, FACS, FASCRS, Sam Atallah, MD, FACS, FASCRS. Florida Hospital. TAMIS is a rapidly developing approach to high-quality excision of rectal neoplasia. It is best suited for lesions in the lower and mid-rectum, but TAMIS can be used […]
Irene J Lo, MD, Paul Suding, MD, Giovanni Begossi, MD, Rupert Horoupian, MD, Ajay K Upadhyay, MD. Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (Oakland and Berkeley, California), St. Rose Hospital (Hayward, California). INTRODUCTION: Transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM) was initially developed in the early 1980s as a minimally invasive option for the surgical management of rectal neoplasms […]
Homero Rivas, MD, MBA, Shushmita Ahmed, MD, Michael Russo, MD. Stanford University School of Medicine. Introduction: Per oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) is a novel endoscopic procedure for treatment of esophageal achalasia. We have implemented POEM at our institution since early 2012, and now it represents the treatment of choice of most patients with esophageal achalasia. […]
S D Schwaitzberg, MD, M L Kochman, MN Cambridge Health Alliance Nearly 1 million minimally invasive cholecystectomies are performed in the United States yearly. While a number of techniques are described to perform this procedure, they are rarely compared in a prospective and randomized fashion. NOSCAR, the Natural Orifice Surgery Consortium for Assessment and Research […]