Open AccessTransanal polypectomy using single incision laparoscopic instruments
Author(s) -
Dimitrios Dardamanis,
Dimitrios Theodorou,
George Theodoropoulos,
Andreas Larentzakis,
Maria Natoudi,
Georgia Doulami,
Christina Zoumpouli,
Haridimos Markogiannakis,
Stylianos Katsaragakis,
George Zografos
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
world journal of gastrointestinal surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1948-9366
DOI - 10.4240/wjgs.v3.i4.56
Subject(s) - medicine , surgery , rectum , microsurgery , endoscopy , laparoscopy , port (circuit theory) , polypectomy , rectal polyp , colonoscopy , colorectal cancer , cancer , electrical engineering , engineering
Transanal excision of rectal polyps with laparoscopic instrumentation and a single incision laparoscopic port is a novel technique that uses technology originally developed for abdominal procedures from the natural orifice of the rectum. Transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM) is a well established surgical approach for certain benign or early malignant lesions of the rectum, under specific indications. Our technique is a hybrid technique of transanal surgery, a reasonable method for polyp resection without the need of the sophisticated and expensive instrumentation of TEM which can be applied whenever endoscopic or conventional transanal surgical removal is not feasible.