Women's Perception of Transgastric and Transvaginal Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) - Impact of Medical Education, Stage of Life and Cross-Cultural Aspects.

Introduction: Despite that NOTES produces at least matchable clinical long-term results when compared to laparoscopy, still a restraint within the medical community and among patients is evident. Consequently, it might be meaningful to evaluate factors of patient's NOTES perception to promote its acceptance. NOTES is still quite novel and questionnaires regarding its perception by the public is still lacking even so in the Middle East.

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy versus transvaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery cholecystectomy: results of a prospective comparative single-center study.

Background And Aims: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) in female individuals has been challenged recently by transvaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery cholecystectomy (TVC). TVC has not been widely accepted as a standard procedure, even though it is reported to be a safe and painless alternative to LC. This prospective comparative study aims to not only prove equality of TVC and LC but to underline the advantages of TVC over LC with regard to postoperative pain.