Natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery (NOTES): Is it time for introduction to clinical practice?

Accepted 27 May 2009. published online 27 July 2009.

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a Department of Surgery, Cambridge Health Alliance, Boston, MA

b Gastroenterology Division, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA

c Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

d Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Reprint requests: Steven D. Schwaitzberg, MD, Cambridge Health Alliance, 1493 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02139.

PII: S0039-6060(09)00357-2

doi:10.1016/j.surg.2009.06.015

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