NOTES: Transvaginal endoscopic cholecystectomy in humans-preliminary report of a case series.

Objectives: Natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) represents an emerging technology, including under its umbrella a variety of approaches and combinations. The transvaginal approach to endoscopic cholecystectomy is one such technique, which we present here as a small series.

Methods: From May to November 2007, a total of eight patients were scheduled to undergo transvaginal endoscopic cholecystectomy at our institute.