Comment on

• The Second SAGES/ASGE White Paper on natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery: 5 years of progress.

  Rattner DW, Hawes R, Schwaitzberg S, Kochman M, Swanstrom L. Rattner DW, et al. Surg Endosc. 2011 Aug;25(8):2441-8. doi: 10.1007/s00464-011-1605-5. Epub 2011 Feb 27. Surg Endosc. 2011. PMID: 21359881 No abstract available.
• Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic radical prostatectomy: initial perioperative and pathologic results.

  Humphreys MR, Sauer JS, Ryan AR, Leslie KO, Castle EP, Lingeman JE, Andrews PE. Humphreys MR, et al. Urology. 2011 Dec;78(6):1211-7. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2011.06.056. Epub 2011 Oct 11. Urology. 2011. PMID: 21996106
• A stepwise approach and early clinical experience in peroral endoscopic myotomy for the treatment of achalasia and esophageal motility disorders.

  Swanström LL, Rieder E, Dunst CM. Swanström LL, et al. J Am Coll Surg. 2011 Dec;213(6):751-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2011.09.001. Epub 2011 Oct 13. J Am Coll Surg. 2011. PMID: 21996484 Clinical Trial.
• Female sexual function after pure transvaginal appendectomy: a cohort study.

  Solomon D, Lentz R, Duffy AJ, Bell RL, Roberts KE. Solomon D, et al. J Gastrointest Surg. 2012 Jan;16(1):183-6; discussion 186-7. doi: 10.1007/s11605-011-1706-4. Epub 2011 Oct 14. J Gastrointest Surg. 2012. PMID: 21997432 Clinical Trial.
• Peroral endoscopic myotomy for the treatment of achalasia: a prospective single center study.

  von Renteln D, Inoue H, Minami H, Werner YB, Pace A, Kersten JF, Much CC, Schachschal G, Mann O, Keller J, Fuchs KH, Rösch T. von Renteln D, et al. Am J Gastroenterol. 2012 Mar;107(3):411-7. doi: 10.1038/ajg.2011.388. Epub 2011 Nov 8. Am J Gastroenterol. 2012. PMID: 22068665