Table 1: Summary of the case reports.

Study -year

Intervention

Timing

Endoscopi device

Urschel et al. 1990 [2]s

Partial gastrectomy (Billroth II)

20 days

Endoscopic snare

Reissman et al. 1994 [3]

Nissen fundoplication and gastrostomy

n.a.

Laparoscopic scissors under endoscopic view

Chen et al. 1997 [1]

Gastrojejunostomy

2 weeks

Biopsy forceps

Han et al. 1999 [6]

Antrectomy with Billorth II and Roux-En-Y jejunostomy

12 days

Endoscopic suture cutter (Olympus FS-3L)

Mahmood et al. 2007 [8]

Distal esophagectomy

7 days

n.a.

Shaaban et al. 2009 [4]

Dor fundoplication

1 day

Diathermic snare

Wilkinson et al. 2011 [12]

Pancreaticoduodenectomy

2 days

Endoscopic scissors (after failing with rat-tooth forceps, loop wire cutters, snares, endoscopic scissors, monopolar/bipolar electrocautery)

Sucandy et al. 2011 [10]

Robotically assisted laparoscopic biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch

1 day

Endoscopic cutter through

 sideview ERCP scope

Galasso et al. 2013 [9]

Surgery on a proximal colon–gastric anastomosis

3 weeks

Homemade endoscopic guillotine: combination of the metal sheath of a mechanical lithotriptor and a polypectomy snare

Knežević et al. 2013 [5]

Gastric resection, with Billroth II

7 days

Precut papilliotome needle and alligator jaw foreign body forceps

Kim et al. 2016 [11]

Repair of a duodenal perforation

6 days

Endoscopic loop cutter

Morais et al. 2017 [14]

Gastric ulcer suture

7 days

Hot biopsy forceps

Azzam et al. 2018 [7]

Total gastrectomy

with a Roux-en-Y oesophagojejunostomy

6 weeks

Endoscopic snare