Lee DJK, Tan KY. Endoscopic surgery - exploring the modalities. World J Gastrointest Surg 2015; 7(11): 326-334 [PMID: 26649156 DOI: 10.4240/wjgs.v7.i11.326]
Corresponding Author of This Article
Dr. Kok-Yang Tan, Clinical Associate Professor, Clinical Director of Geriatric Surgery Service, Head and Senior Consultant of Department of Surgery, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, 90 Yishun Central, Singapore 768828, Singapore. kokyangtan@gmail.com
Research Domain of This Article
Surgery
Article-Type of This Article
Minireviews
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World J Gastrointest Surg. Nov 27, 2015; 7(11): 326-334 Published online Nov 27, 2015. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v7.i11.326
Endoscopic surgery - exploring the modalities
Daniel Jin Keat Lee, Kok-Yang Tan
Daniel Jin Keat Lee, Kok-Yang Tan, Department of Surgery, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore 768828, Singapore
Author contributions: Lee DJK performed the majority of the research around this topic, wrote the manuscript and obtained figures for the article; Tan KY designed the article framework and contributed to the editing of the manuscript.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors report no conflict of interest. The authors are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Dr. Kok-Yang Tan, Clinical Associate Professor, Clinical Director of Geriatric Surgery Service, Head and Senior Consultant of Department of Surgery, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, 90 Yishun Central, Singapore 768828, Singapore. kokyangtan@gmail.com
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Received: April 19, 2015 Peer-review started: April 21, 2015 First decision: August 19, 2015 Revised: September 14, 2015 Accepted: October 1, 2015 Article in press: October 8, 2015 Published online: November 27, 2015
Core Tip
Core tip: This article is a comprehensive review of endoscopic surgery. It analyses the different types of endosurgery from endoscopic submucosal dissection, endoscopic full-thickness resection and natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery. This article highlights the relevant topics and recent advances in this area. In addition all the latest procedural devises such as the master and slave transluminal endoscopic robot endoscopic robot, multitasking endoscopes and other examples are described. Finally a clear and comprehensive review of the latest human clinical trials and their outcomes are outlined. Hence overall, readers will have a full understanding of endosurgery, the currently available as well as upcoming technology and their safety profiles.
