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With the development of advanced minimally invasive therapy, the role of endoscopic involvement in therapeutic procedures in the gastrointestinal tract has substantially increased. The trend of minimizing access trauma has stimulated gastroenterologists and surgeons to use interventional endoscopic technology to replace a number of procedures, which were a mainstay in open surgery and even some in laparoscopic surgery. An endoscopic surgical platform should be able to maneuver within the gut with its intraluminal restrictions and at the same time carry the potential to be used for basic surgical tasks such as cutting, dissecting, traction, and countertraction as well as suturing. A number of new technologies have been demonstrated. Further developments in endoscopic, surgical, and multifunctional platforms are necessary in the future. Optimal multitasking platforms should have changeable end-effectors, image guidance, possibility of traction, and countertraction, as well as sufficient triangulation and at the same time steerable stability to increase precision in manipulations.

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Broderick, R.C., Tsai, C., Lee, A.M., Fuchs, KH. (2021). Endoscopic Surgical Platforms. In: Horgan, S., Fuchs, KH. (eds) Innovative Endoscopic and Surgical Technology in the GI Tract . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78217-7_22

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