| abstract |
The present invention refers to surgical endoscopes, more specifically to surgical endoscopes for the performance of operations held, preferably, through an external orifice to a bodily opening defined by tissue of an internal bodily lumen, such as the case of abdominal and thoracic operations through perforations in digestive organs with lumen, but not limited to this type of operations, being also possible to use them in laparoscopic surgery. The invention was developed for diagnostic and/or therapeutic applications, based on the techniques known as NOTES, that is, Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery. |