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Video. Improving functional esophageal surgery with a "smart" bougie: Endoflip.

Silvana Perretta, Bernard Dallemagne, Barry McMahon, Jacopo D’Agostino, and Jacques Marescaux

Surg Endosc 25(9):3109 (2011) PMID 21437739

An emerging imaging tool, the functional lumen imaging probe (Endoflip; Crospon Ltd, Galway, Ireland), provides a real-time measurement of esophagogastric junction (EGJ) capacity and diameter, which would be of particular interest in functional esophageal surgery such as Heller myotomy and antireflux procedures. This study aimed to demonstrate the intraoperative use of endoflip in the treatment of achalasia and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).

DOI: 10.1007/s00464-011-1611-7
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