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    A SAGES technology and value assessment and pediatric committee evaluation of mini-laparoscopic instrumentation

    The TAVAC and Pediatric Committees of SAGES evaluated the current use of mini-laparoscopic instrumentation to better understand the role this category of devices plays in the delivery of minimally invasive sur...

    Thom E. Lobe, Lucian Panait, Giovanni Dapri, Peter M. Denk in Surgical Endoscopy (2022)

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    Multiple nerve blocks after video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS)

    Epidural analgesia and/or systemic narcotics are used for pain control after video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lobectomy despite side effects. We report a video of a technique to safely place subpleural c...

    Luca Milone, Donna Edmondson, Abraham Lebenthal, Walter Scott in Surgical Endoscopy (2011)

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    Pure natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) cholecystectomy

    Enthusiasm for natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) has been partly tempered by the reality that most NOTES procedures to date have been laparoscopically assisted. After safely performing tr...

    Marc Bessler, Andrew A. Gumbs, Luca Milone, John C. Evanko in Surgical Endoscopy (2010)

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    Reply to: 464_126 (2008: 22(12) 2763–2764) Re: Transvaginal laparoscopic cholecystectomy

    Marc Bessler, Peter Stevens, Luca Milone, Andrew Gumbs, Dennis Fowler in Surgical Endoscopy (2009)

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    Reply to Letter by Klaus and Weiss (00464-008-0163-y): Re: ‘Esophageal Dilation After Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding’ (2008: 22(6)1482–1486)

    Luca Milone, Marc Bessler in Surgical Endoscopy (2009)

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    Transvaginal laparoscopic cholecystectomy: laparoscopically assisted

    Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) is considered the new frontier for minimally invasive surgery. NOTES procedures such as peritoneoscopy, splenectomy, and cholecystectomy in animal models...

    Marc Bessler, Peter D. Stevens, Luca Milone, Nancy J. Hogle in Surgical Endoscopy (2008)

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    Perioperative outcome of laparoscopic left lateral liver resection is improved by using a bioabsorbable staple line reinforcement material in a porcine model

    Laparoscopic liver surgery is significantly limited by the technical difficulty encountered during transection of substantial liver parenchyma, with intraoperative bleeding and bile leaks. This study tested wh...

    Esther C. J. Consten, Gregory F. Dakin, Jan-Lukas Robertus in Surgical Endoscopy (2008)