This Satellite Symposium will be a lively discussion, among the panel members and with the audience,on the teamwork between surgeons and gastroenterologists working in the field of Natural OrificeTranslumenal Endoscopic Surgery™ (NOTES™) procedures.
The topics covered in these discussions will be potential targets and candidates for NOTES, natural orifices access to peritoneal cavity, intervention and suturing devices, prevention of infections, training and certification of NOTES operators.
Satellite Symposium 2 - Room Poulenc
Tuesday, April 8
8:20 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
Mucosal ablation in 2008: PDT et al
C.J. Lightdale (USA) – H.C. Wolfsen (USA)
- Introduction C.J. Lightdale (New York)
- Cryotherapy, first results B.D. Greenwald (Baltimore)
- Radiofrequency ablation, updated results G. Triadafilopoulos (Stanford)
- PDT: new perspectives for Foscan and Photofrin J. Etienne (Paris)
- PDT tools, present and future D. Boucher (Paris)