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Transgastric Intra-abdominal Surgery

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Innovative Endoscopic and Surgical Technology in the GI Tract

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The increasing experience with endoscopic mucosal resections and endoscopic tumor resections has paved the way for more sophisticated endo-surgical procedures. A remarkable step in this development was the introduction of a planned peritoneoscopy and exploration of the abdominal cavity by Kalloo. Transgastric procedures are new for laparoscopic surgeons as well as gastroenterologists. Gastroenterologists expand their endoscopic repertoire by using the transgastric route for endoscopic techniques at the biliary system. Both can benefit from learning these techniques together, especially from encountering certain problems that require a solution, which can have elements from surgical and endoscopic background. Transgastric access techniques and intra-abdominal procedures will need extensive training in order to apply these in a safe way to patients. The potential of this approach has not been explored and exploited sufficiently and will need further work in the future.

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Fuchs, KH., Breithaupt, W., Schulz, T., Tsai, C., Varga, G. (2021). Transgastric Intra-abdominal Surgery. 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_25

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