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Transgastric surgery in the abdomen: the dawn of a new era?

2005; Elsevier BV; Volume: 62; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.gie.2005.06.018

1097-6779

J. Hochberger, Wolfram Lamadé,

Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments

To launch new developments means to break down borders and to disobey rules in an intelligent fashion. Going beyond the “natural” margins among medical disciplines may enrich all sides and may lead to new views of classical indications and therapeutic strategies. In their current papers on endoscopic gastrojejunostomy, Kantsevoy, Kalloo, and coworkers of the Apollo Group show, for the first time, more details of their work going beyond the gastric wall and working with an perorally introduced flexible endoscope via a sterile overtube in the abdominal cavity.