Weisheng Chen, MD, Lihuan Zhu, MD, Shengsheng Yang, MD, Dazhou Li, MD, Wen Wang, MD, Long Chen, MD, PhD Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Fuzhou General Hospital Introduction: Thoracic sympathectomy is considered as the most effective method to treat palmar hyperhidrosis. Although video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) confers better cosmesis, some patients are still concerned with the […]
Angel Cuadrado-garcia, MD, PhD, Anna Sanchez Lopez, MD, Jose Francisco Noguera, PhD, MD, Jose Maria Munoz, MD, Rafael Morales Soriano, MD, Santiago Baena Bradaschia, MD, Jose Manuel Olea Martinez, MD, Antonia Crespi Mir, MD Hospital Son Llatzer, IUNICS (Palma, Spain). Hospital General (Valencia, Spain) Background:Hybrid transvaginal approach has been one of the most important efforts […]
Kazuyuki Saito, MD, Nobumi Tagaya, PhD, Nana Makino, MD, Yawara Kubota, MD, Takashi Okuyama, PhD, Yoshitake Sugamata, PhD, Hidemaro Yoshiba, PhD, Masatoshi Oya, PhD Department of Surgery, Dokkyo Medical University Koshigaya Hospital Background: Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) is gradually accepted into the standard laparoscopic surgery. We also introduced a modified technique of NOTES […]
Hiroshi Hirukawa, MD, D Satou, MD, K Kawagou, MD, K Hachisuka, MD, R Tanaka, MD, T Tada, MD Tachikawa General Hospital Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) is expected as the next major frontier in minimally invasive surgery. Before the widespread use of NOTES, there are some problems to be solved: attaining visual field, technical […]
Duo Li, MD, Chunbo Kang, MD, Jinhong Liu, MD, Aimin Li, MD, Xiufeng Chen, MD Department of Minimally Invasive Gastrointestinal Surgery, Aerospace Central Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, 100049, China. We report here the first clinical transvaginal laparoscopic sigmoidectomy in China. The patient was a 76-year-old woman with early stage sigmoid adenocarcinoma who had no previous […]