General Surgery

Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery updates

Submitted by srrpenna on Tue, 2007-08-21 12:16.

Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) is an experimental surgical technique whereby "scarless" abdominal operations can be performed with an endoscope passed through a natural orifice (mouth, urethra, anus, etc.) then through an internal incision in the stomach, vagina, bladder or colon, thus avoiding any external incisions or scars.