Introduction The clinical NOTES literature continues to grow. This review quantifies the
published human NOTES experience to date, examines instrument use in detail, and …

Natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) had its origins in numerous small
animal studies primarily examining safety and feasibility. In human trials, safety and …

Introduction The journey from conventional “open” operations to truly “minimally invasive”
operations naturally includes progression from operations involving multiple trocars and …

In this paper, the consistent rotation-based formulation (CRBF) is used to develop a new
fully parametrized plate finite element (FE) based on the kinematic description of the …

Background Natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery (NOTES), with its focus on
eliminating incision-related complications, promises to revolutionize the way surgery is …

Objective: To review the complications encountered in our facility and in previously
published studies of transvaginal (TV) natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery …

Background Clinical applications of transvaginal Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic
Surgery (NOTES) are still limited in the literature, mostly case reports performed by hybrid …

Results: 102 of 137 consecutive patients (74.5%) with symptomatic cholecystolithiasis (n=
74) or cholecystitis (n= 28) were scheduled for rigid-hybrid tvNCC with nine different …

Clinical research on natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) has been
increasingly reported over the past 5 years and more than 1200 patients have received …

Introduction. Laparoscopic appendectomy (LA) has been performed in many approaches
such as open, laparoscopic and recently Single Port Access (SPAA). In order to elucidate its …