NOTES in Europe: summary of the working group reports of the 2012 EURO-NOTES meeting

A. Meining; G. Spaun; G. Fernández-Esparrach; A. Arezzo; D. Wilhelm; J. Martinek; J. Spicak; H. Feussner; K. H. Fuchs; T. Hucl; S. Meisner; H. Neuhaus

doi:10.1055/s-0032-1326205

Endoscopy, Table of Contents

Endoscopy 2013; 45(03): 214-217
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1326205

Review

NOTES in Europe: summary of the working group reports of the 2012 EURO-NOTES meeting

A. Meining

¹Medical Department II, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

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G. Spaun

²Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Schwestern Linz, Linz, Austria

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G. Fernández-Esparrach

³Institut de Malalties Digestives i Metabòliques, Barcelona, Spain

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A. Arezzo

⁴University of Torino, Torino, Italy

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D. Wilhelm

⁵Surgical Department, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technical University, Munich, Germany

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J. Martinek

⁶Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic

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J. Spicak

⁶Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic

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H. Feussner

⁵Surgical Department, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technical University, Munich, Germany

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K. H. Fuchs

⁷Markus Krankenhaus, Frankfurt, Germany

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T. Hucl

⁶Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic

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S. Meisner

⁸H Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

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H. Neuhaus

⁹Evangelisches Krankenhaus Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

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Abstract

The sixth EURO-NOTES workshop (4 – 6 October 2012, Prague, Czech Republic) focused on enabling intensive scientific dialogue and interaction between surgeons, gastroenterologists, and engineers/industry representatives and discussion of the state of the practice and development of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) in Europe. In accordance with previous meetings, five working groups were formed. In 2012, emphasis was put on specific indications for NOTES and interventional endoscopy. Each group was assigned an important indication related to ongoing research in NOTES and interventional endoscopy: cholecystectomy and appendectomy, therapy of colorectal diseases, therapy of adenocarcinoma and neoplasia in the upper gastrointestinal tract, treating obesity, and new therapeutic approaches for achalasia. This review summarizes consensus statements of the working groups.

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