Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Volume 70, Issue 6 , Pages 1225-1230 , December 2009

Loop-anchor purse-string versus endoscopic clips for gastric closure: a natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery comparison study using burst pressures

Received 15 October 2008 ,Accepted 6 May 2009.

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 DISCLOSURES: Baystate Medical Center and Cook Endoscopy have filed a joint patent disclosure on the LAPS device. Wilson-Cook provided engineer support, some laboratory supplies, and device manufacturing support for this project. Olympus provided the endoscopes, the endoscopic clips, and all of the endoscopic video equipment used in this study. The following authors disclosed financial relationships relevant to this publication: D. Desilets has received an unrestricted research grant from Cook Endoscopy in the past. V. C. Surti is an employee of Wilson-Cook. The authors received no salary support from Cook or Olympus, they have no stock or other interests in these companies, and they have no other disclosures. All other authors disclosed no financial relationships relevant to this publication.

PII: S0016-5107(09)01921-X

doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2009.05.019

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Volume 70, Issue 6 , Pages 1225-1230 , December 2009

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