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Surgery has always gravitated around a balance between safety and efficacy. Surgeons have been on a constant crusade to make their operations better, safer, and more recently less invasive. The quest toward minimal access surgery has been a constant evolution. Minimally invasive surgery has evolved from multiple angles that have somewhat completed each other. Perhaps laparoscopy has been the area that has witnessed the fastest growth and universal acceptance. It has pushed common open operations to the point of obsolete. Laparoscopy has become the new standard of care. In a similar way, endoscopy has evolved to become an invaluable tool in the diagnosis and management of pathology in the gastrointestinal tract. Many procedures that are now routinely done through minimal access approaches were not even thought as possible less than a century ago. The aim of this chapter is to describe the historical evolution of flexible endoscopy to natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery (NOTES), examine some of the current applications, and seed some thoughts for the future.
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Rodriguez, J.H., Ponsky, J. (2018). NOTES: Past, Present, and Future. In: Sridhar, S., Wu, G. (eds) Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures in Gastroenterology. Clinical Gastroenterology. Humana Press, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62993-3_43
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