Endoscopic submucosal dissection of gastric lesions by using a master and slave transluminal endoscopic robot : an animal survival study

• Main Authors: Wang, Z., Phee, Soo Jay, Lomanto, D., Goel, R., Rebala, Pradeep, Sun, Z., Trasti, Scott L., Reddy, Nageshwar, Wong, J., Ho, K.
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98170; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/13292
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Patients and methods: In this prospective study, ESD was performed on five female pigs (weighing 32.4 - 36.8 kg) under general anesthesia using the MASTER. The animals were observed for 2 weeks before being humanely killed for necropsy examination. The main outcome measures were completeness of rese...