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Participants
Start Date
August 31, 2006
Primary Completion Date
January 31, 2009
Study Completion Date
January 31, 2009
Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES)
Patients will have the standard laparoscopic procedure and the NOTES procedure will be added. The surgical procedure will require two operating teams: one led by a laparoscopic surgeon, the other by an endoscopic surgeon. During the usual course of the surgery, the flexible endoscope will be passed through the mouth urethra top gain access to the peritoneal cavity.
Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES)
chart review of historical data from control group
University Hospitals of Cleveland Case Medical Center, Cleveland
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
OTHER