A Trial to Evaluate Natural Orifice Transvaginal Endoscopic Cholecystectomy With Laparoscopic Assistance

NCT00889928 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 7

Last updated 2011-11-24

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Summary

The study will document being able to successfully remove a subject's gallbladder through the vagina (laparoscopic visualization)using a small collection of study surgical tools.

Conditions

  • Gallbladder Disease

Interventions

DEVICE

NOTES GEN 1 Toolbox

* Articulating Hook Knife * Articulating Snare * Articulating Needle Knife * Articulating Graspers * Articulating Biopsy Forceps * Steerable Flex Trocar with Rotary Access Needle * Flexible Bipolar Hemostasis Forceps * Flexible Maryland Dissector

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ethicon Endo-Surgery

    lead INDUSTRY

Principal Investigators

  • Eric Hungness, MD · Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-04-30
Primary Completion
2010-11-30
Completion
2011-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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