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GONZALEZ LEON, Tania; RODRIGUEZ VERDE, Ernesto  e  NUNEZ ROCA, Ariel. Considerations on transluminal endoscopic surgery through a natural orifice. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 2011, vol.40, n.3-4, pp. 285-294. ISSN 0138-6557.

From final of past century, surgery underwent a new approach to offer patient less-invasive therapeutic modalities, leading to the term minimally invasive surgery or of minimal access. The 2007 was characterized by an increase in the development of this type of procedure and appeared the transluminal endoscopic surgery through a natural orifice called "surgery without traces". The alternatives of surgical approach nowadays proposed appear due to demand of society to offer patient methods less and less invasive. It will be necessary experimental and clinical studies to demonstrate its benefits over its high cost, but the more important will be to look after the appropriate equilibrium between the present acceptation and the ethical and human values prevailing in the route to "surgery without traces". The objective of present paper is to offer some considerations in this respect, thus authors made a review of published information until nowadays on this subject and it was analyzed how the authors evaluate this phenomenon in current society.

Palavras-chave : transluminal endoscopic surgery through a natural orifice; surgery without traces; minimally invasive surgery; minimal access surgery.