of now scar-free surgery. organs removed via mouth

Look, no scars: organs removed via the mouth: Professor Lord Darzi, chair of surgery at Imperial College London, has conducted preliminary experiments ona new form of scar-free surgery. The technique in which robotically controlled instruments are lowered into the patient’s stomach and diseased organs removed though the patient's throat.

A hole is made in the lining of the stomach, then the organ - usually an appendix or gall bladder - is cut out and pulled up through the throat before the hole is stitched, leaving the patient with no external scars and a reduced risk of infection because the wounds are not exposed to the air. The technique, called natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery, has been successfully used on patients in America, France and India.