Innovations and NOTES

Endoscopy essentials

Reviews in the Endoscopy essentials series cite publications from the past year which, in the authors’ opinion, reflect the state-of-the-art in endoscopy. Alongside a short summary of each paper, authors explain why they consider their selected articles to be of importance.

• References

• 1 Phee SJ, Reddy N, Chiu PW et al. Robot-assisted endoscopic submucosal dissection is effective in treating patients with early-stage gastric neoplasia. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2012; 10: 1117-1121
• 2 Phee SJ, Ho KY, Lomanto D et al. Natural orifice transgastric endoscopic wedge hepatic resection in an experimental model using an intuitively controlled master and slave transluminal endoscopic robot (MASTER). Surg Endosc 2010; 24: 2293-2298
• 3 Wang Z, Phee SJ, Lomanto D et al. Endoscopic submucosal dissection of gastric lesions by using a master and slave transluminal endoscopic robot: an animal survival study. Endoscopy 2012; 44: 690-694
• 4 Inoue H, Ikeda H, Hosoya T et al. Submucosal endoscopic tumor resection for subepithelial tumors in the esophagus and cardia. Endoscopy 2012; 44: 225-230
• 5 Gong W, Xiong Y, Zhi F et al. Preliminary experience of endoscopic submucosal tunnel dissection for upper gastrointestinal submucosal tumors. Endoscopy 2012; 44: 231-235
• 6 Meining A. Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES). Endoscopy 2012; 44: 399-402
• 7 Schlag C, Wilhelm D, von Delius S et al. EndoResect study: endoscopic full-thickness resection of gastric subepithelial tumors. Endoscopy 2013; 45: 4-11
• 8 Noguera JF, Cuadrado A, Dolz C et al. Prospective randomized clinical trial comparing laparoscopic cholecystectomy and hybrid natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES). Surg Endosc 2012; 26: 3435-3441
• 9 Lehmann KS, Ritz JP, Wibmer A et al. The German registry for natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery: report of the first 551 patients. Ann Surg 2010; 252: 263-270
• 10 Rattner DW, Hawes R, Schwaitzberg S et al. The Second SAGES/ASGE White Paper on natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery: 5 years of progress. Surg Endosc 2011; 25: 2441-2448
• 11 Bakker OJ, van Santvoort HC, van Brunschot S et al. Endoscopic transgastric vs surgical necrosectomy for infected necrotizing pancreatitis: a randomized trial. JAMA 2012; 307: 1053-1061
• 12 Seifert H, Wehrmann T, Schmitt T et al. Retroperitoneal endoscopic debridement for infected peripancreatic necrosis. Lancet 2000; 356: 653-655
• 13 Seifert H, Biermer M, Schmitt W et al. Transluminal endoscopic necrosectomy after acute pancreatitis: a multicentre study with long-term follow-up (the GEPARD Study). Gut 2009; 58: 1260-1266
• 14 van Santvoort HC, Besselink MG, Bakker OJ et al. A step-up approach or open necrosectomy for necrotizing pancreatitis. N Engl J Med 2010; 362: 1491-1502