Post written by Hiroyuki Aihara, MD, PhD, from the Developmental Endoscopy Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. In this video, we present a case of a large flat lesion in the cecum that was removed by ESD using …
Continue reading ESD of a large cecal polyp using a scissor-type knife
Post written by Brian S. Lim, MD, MCR, FASGE, from the School of Medicine, University of California, and the Department of Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center, Riverside, California, USA. A 60-year-old male presented with right lower-quadrant pain and fever. CT (computed tomography) abdomen showed acute appendicitis, but also an incidental biliary stent. The atient …
Post written by D. Nageshwar Reddy, MD, DM, from the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad, India. In this video case series, we described 5 cases with pancreatic fluid collections (4 walled-off necrosis and 1 pseudocyst) that underwent endoscopic ultrasound-guided drainage using a new biflanged metal stent with electrocautery-enhanced delivery system (Hot Nagi, Taewoong Medical, Gyenoggi- …
Post written by Zaheer Nabi, MD, DNB, from the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad, India. The video case describes a 3-year-old child presenting with recurrent episodes of acute pancreatitis. Etiological evaluation revealed multiple calculi in the gallbladder on transabdominal ultrasonography. Expecting a calculus in the bile duct, we performed an endosonography to confirm. Surprisingly, endosonography …
Continue reading Recurrent acute pancreatitis in a toddler: a “wormy surprise”
Post written by Hiroyuki Aihara, MD, PhD, FASGE, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) allows for en bloc resection of gastrointestinal lesions, which theoretically results in lower recurrence rates. However, ESD in the duodenal bulb is technically challenging …
Continue reading Successful removal of duodenal submucosal tumors with ESD
Post written by Shyam Thakkar, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. An 86-year-old woman was referred for ascending cholangitis, resulting in obstructive jaundice and sepsis. Her initial MR cholangiopancreatography revealed dilated bile ducts without any mass or stone in the ductal system. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography revealed soft filling defects …
Post written by Yuki Tanisaka, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, Saitama, Japan. We report our experience with confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE) imaging of lymphoma of the duodenal papilla with the corresponding histopathologic images. Our patient was an 83-year-old man with an endoscopic finding of a depressed lesion …
Continue reading Confocal laser endomicroscopic finding of lymphoma of the duodenal papilla
