Course Description
Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) is a novel concept of using the natural orifices of human bodies to be the surgical channels and avoid visible abdominal scars. Though conventional vaginal surgeries has been a gynecologic expertise in daily practice, some procedures can only be achieved with palpation in some conditions, such as doing vaginal hysterectomy while the uterus is large or without descensus, or performing concomitant adnexal surgeries. We recently developed a technique of transvaginal NOTES and demonstrated that transvaginal NOTES can perform not only adnexal procedures but hysterectomies as well. The purpose of this lesson is to teach how to perform NOTES surgery, possible limitations of hysterectomy performed with transvaginal NOTES in the daily practice for benign gynecologic disease.
Course Outline
Date and Time: 8:30 – 14:30, Nov. 4, 2016
Venue: 201DE
Course Director: Prof. Chyi-Long Lee
Co-Chair: A/Prof. Kai-Yun Wu
- IntroductionChyi-Long Lee (Taiwan)
- Evolution in Gynecologic SurgeryChyi-Long Lee (Taiwan)
- Instrumentation, set-up, and electrosurgery in NOTESTBD
- Anatomy in NOTESChyi-Long Lee (Taiwan)
- Coffee Break
- NOTES hysterectomy-Step by StepNari Kay (Taiwan)
- Leaming Curve in NOTESChin-Jung Wang (Taiwan)
- Difficult cases in NOTES hysterectomyKai-Yun Wu (Taiwan)
- Discussion
- Lunch Break
- Hands-On Workshop in LESS and NOTES
- ~Adjourn~