The Rise of Tunnel Endoscopic Surgery: A Case Report and Literature Review

Mingyan Cai; Jinzhong Chen; Pinghong Zhou; Liqing Yao

doi:10.1155/2012/847640

Case Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine (Jan 2012)

The Rise of Tunnel Endoscopic Surgery: A Case Report and Literature Review

Mingyan Cai,
Jinzhong Chen,
Pinghong Zhou,
Liqing Yao

Affiliations

Mingyan Cai: Endoscopy Center and Endoscopy Research Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, 180 Fenglin Road, Shanghai 200032, China
Jinzhong Chen: Department of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, No.1 Hospital Affiliated to Xiamen University, Fujian, Xiamen 361003, China
Pinghong Zhou: Endoscopy Center and Endoscopy Research Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, 180 Fenglin Road, Shanghai 200032, China
Liqing Yao: Endoscopy Center and Endoscopy Research Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, 180 Fenglin Road, Shanghai 200032, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/847640
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2012

Abstract

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There has been booming interest in natural orifice transluminal surgery since it was first described. Several techniques first developed for the safe transluminal access now derive into independent endoscopic surgical procedures. In this paper, we describe a case treated by a novel procedure by submucosal tunnelling technique and provide a literature review of the rise of tunnel endoscopic surgery.

Published in Case Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine

ISSN: 2090-6528 (Print); 2090-6536 (Online)
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology
Website: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/crigm/

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