… exploiting natural orifices as a means of access, it was also surgeons. In 1949, Bueno 16
described a series of transvaginal appendicectomies performed without endoscopic assistance …

… the potential to change the way endoscopy and surgery are performed 1 . NOTES implies
surgery performed endoscopically by initially passing the endoscope transorally or transanally, …

… of a flexible endoscope through one of the body’s natural orifices, perforation of a viscus,
and performance of abdominal surgery using endoscopic visualization. The endoscope may be …

… Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) is a … endoscopic technology to
perform laparoscopic surgical … endoscopes to accomplish intra‐abdominal surgeries. Current …

… in the field of endoscopy, natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) stands
out … After standard upper endoscopy, we performed gastric wall puncture using a needle knife, …

… breach the lumen and provide endoscopic access to the … surgical approaches, which require
incisions to be made in the abdominal wall, natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (…

… Ever since Kalloo’s first report on transgastric peritoneoscopy in a porcine model in 2004,
interest in a new surgical procedure named natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (…

… to natural orifice specimen extraction (NOSE) and/or visualization through the natural orifice…
, and cases which considered the umbilicus a natural orifice. These 12 articles [3, 15, 17, 26, …

… Since the first description of the concept of natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery
(NOTES), a substantial number of clinical NOTES reports have appeared in the literature. …

… endoscopes passed through internal organs has been termed natural orifice translumenal
endoscopic surgery … logical evolution in minimally invasive surgery. NOTES is performed via a …