Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Volume 72, Issue 1 , Pages 170-176 , July 2010

Transgastric organ resection solely with the prototype R-scope and the self-approximating transluminal access technique

Received 21 November 2009 ,Accepted 8 January 2010.

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 DISCLOSURE: All authors were the recipients of a donation of a prototype endoscope from Olympus. This project was partially funded through the generous support of the 2008 NOSCAR-Covidien Research Fund. All authors disclosed no financial relationships relevant to this publication.

PII: S0016-5107(10)00032-5

doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2010.01.019

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Volume 72, Issue 1 , Pages 170-176 , July 2010

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