French surgeons took out a woman's gallbladder through an incision in her vagina. They said this "was a glimpse of the future of surgery."
A team of surgeons in New York also recently performed a similar operation.
The 30-year-old french patient recovered quickly with mimimal pain.
The objective of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) is to avoid the trauma of cutting through the heavily muscled abdominal wall.
The surgeons utilized tiny instruments and a video camera to remove her gallbladder, a 4-inch-long (10 cm) sac that provides bile for digesting fat.
The benefit of this surgery is less trauma, and no scar tissue; the downside is that it takes much longer than regular surgery and is more difficult to conduct, which increases the risk of surgical mistakes.
But it is clearly the future.
Am I the only one to see a problem with this graphic?
See 'Round the Sphere: Pharma Giles' Lyrics and NRX's NOTES at:
http://pharmablogosphere.blogspot.com/2007/11/round-sphere-pharma-giles-lyrics-and.html
Posted by: John Mack | November 06, 2007 at 12:35 PM