TY - JOUR
T1 - Laparoendoscopic single-site surgery and natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery
T2 - Future perspectives
AU - Best, Sara L.
AU - Tracy, Chad R.
AU - Cadeddu, Jeffrey A
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2010 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2010/9
Y1 - 2010/9
N2 - Hundreds of laparoendoscopic single-site surgery (LESS) and natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) cases have been reported in the literature across a broad span of urological procedures. Despite this, many hurdles to widespread adoption of these techniques exist, including technical challenges, such as decreased triangulation and unfamiliar viewing angles, and more philosophical issues, such as the necessity of demonstrating benefits of these techniques over conventional laparoscopy. Future research will seek to overcome these obstacles. This may be accomplished with further instrument development, including robotic instrumentation, as well as clinical studies evaluating outcomes of LESS/NOTES operations that may demonstrate advantages in these techniques.
AB - Hundreds of laparoendoscopic single-site surgery (LESS) and natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) cases have been reported in the literature across a broad span of urological procedures. Despite this, many hurdles to widespread adoption of these techniques exist, including technical challenges, such as decreased triangulation and unfamiliar viewing angles, and more philosophical issues, such as the necessity of demonstrating benefits of these techniques over conventional laparoscopy. Future research will seek to overcome these obstacles. This may be accomplished with further instrument development, including robotic instrumentation, as well as clinical studies evaluating outcomes of LESS/NOTES operations that may demonstrate advantages in these techniques.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2010.09674.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2010.09674.x
M3 - Review article
C2 - 20883249
AN - SCOPUS:77956379718
VL - 106
SP - 941
EP - 944
JO - British Journal of Urology
JF - British Journal of Urology
SN - 1464-4096
IS - 6 PART B
ER -