Post written by Shamira Ghouse, MRCP, from the Gastroenterology Department, East and North Hertfordshire NHS Teaching Trust, Lister Hospital, Stevenage, England. Our article describes a 42-year-old man with no relevant medical history who was referred on the urgent suspected cancer pathway with new intermittent abdominal pain and an altered bowel habit. Colonoscopy showed a subepithelial …
Continue reading The spontaneous expulsion of a large colonic lipoma: a rare case
Post written by Phillip S. Ge, MD, FASGE, from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA. The focus of our study was to evaluate the performance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the initial staging of large rectal polyps in patients who were initially referred for colorectal surgery and subsequently referred …
Post written by Andrew C. Storm, MD, from Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. Poll 100 educators in gastrointestinal endoscopy, and they will probably all agree that over our careers we have been asked to do more with less time for our fellows. Duty-hour restrictions limit time in-house, but formal educational requirements …
Post written by Yasuhiro Komori, MD, from the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, and Department of Medicine and Bioregulatory Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Susumu Hijioka, MD, PhD, and Shin Yagi, MD, PhD, from the the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Oncology, National Cancer …
Post written by Eric Lam, MD, from the Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, and Digestive Health Centre, St Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Justin Buttar, MD, from the Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, and Neal Shahidi, MD, PhD, from the Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, and St Paul’s …
Post written by Anand R. Kumar, MD, MPH, FASGE, from Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. We combined ERCP and endoscopic submucosal dissection techniques to resect a large periampullary duodenal paraganglioma. This was a unique case where the biliary and pancreatic openings could be moved away from the paraganglioma with ERCP and protected during endoscopic …
Continue reading Endoscopic resection of a periampullary duodenal paraganglioma
Post written by Ylanna Fortes, MD, Renata Nobre, MD, PhD, Bruno da Costa Martins, MD, PhD, and Fauze Maluf-Filho, MD, PhD, from the Department of Endoscopy, Cancer Institute of São Paulo, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. A 71-year-old man with a history of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma underwent surveillance endoscopy. During systematic examination …
Continue reading From endoscopic diagnosis to curative treatment: superficial pharyngeal cancer
Post written by Yichen Wang, MD, MSc, Vivek Kumbhari, MBChB, PhD, and Michael B. Wallace, MD, MPH, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA. Today’s endoscopic artificial intelligence (AI) can see, but it cannot act. Our perspective examines what may arrive next: embodied or physical, AI that can interpret the …
Post written by Riku Nakajima, MD, Wataru Sano, MD, Sachiko Shimizu, MD, Naoki Sugimura, MD, PhD, Daizen Hirata, MD, PhD, Mineo Iwatate, MD, PhD, Mikio Fujita, MD, PhD, and Yasushi Sano, MD, PhD, from the Gastrointestinal Center, Sano Hospital, Kobe, Japan. Our article presents 4 patients who underwent underwater endoscopic submucosal dissection for large colonic …
Post written by Saurabh Chandan, MD, from Houston Methodist West Hospital, Houston, Texas, and Douglas G. Adler, MD, FACG, AGAF, FASGE, from the Center for Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy, Porter Adventist Hospital, Denver, Colorado, USA. Interventional radiology techniques or EUS-guided biliary drainage are considered alternative therapeutic options for patients with malignant distal biliary obstruction (MDBO) who …
