Endoscopy 2013; 45(03): 214-217
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1326205
Review
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

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

Authors

  • A. Meining

    1   Medical Department II, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
  • G. Spaun

    2   Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Schwestern Linz, Linz, Austria
  • G. Fernández-Esparrach

    3   Institut de Malalties Digestives i Metabòliques, Barcelona, Spain
  • A. Arezzo

    4   University of Torino, Torino, Italy
  • D. Wilhelm

    5   Surgical Department, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technical University, Munich, Germany
  • J. Martinek

    6   Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
  • J. Spicak

    6   Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
  • H. Feussner

    5   Surgical Department, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technical University, Munich, Germany
  • K. H. Fuchs

    7   Markus Krankenhaus, Frankfurt, Germany
  • T. Hucl

    6   Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
  • S. Meisner

    8   H Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • H. Neuhaus

    9   Evangelisches Krankenhaus Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Further Information

Publication History

Publication Date:
27 February 2013 (online)

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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.