2009 Program and Abstracts: Optical Coherence Tomography of the Colon and Its Mesentery (Including Virtual Sentinel Node Biopsy) By Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (N.O.T.E.S.)
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Optical Coherence Tomography of the Colon and Its Mesentery (Including Virtual Sentinel Node Biopsy) By Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (N.O.T.E.S.)
Ronan a. Cahill1, Mitsuhiro Asakuma1, Joseph A. Trunzo*2, Steve J. Schomisch2, Joel Leroy1, Bernard Dallemagne1, Jacques Marescaux1, Jeffrey M. Marks2
1Surgery, IRCAD/EITS, Strasbourg, France; 2Departments of General Surgery and Surgical Endoscopy, University Hospitals, Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) may supplement the oncological providence of intraluminal resectional techniques (eg Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection) for early stage colonic neoplasia by providing nodal staging information in a truly minimally invasive fashion. Catheter-based Optical Coherence Tomography deployed via NOTES peritoneoscopy may advance this by providing high resolution (x400) optical analysis of both the colon wall from outwith the intestine as well as mesenteric lymph node architecture. This facility to provide ‘virtual biopsy’ of salient tissues (including sentinel nodes) by NOTES is demonstrated in this technical video utilizing a porcine model.
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