Post written by Theodore W. James, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. We describe a 39-year-old woman with a history of Crohn’s disease and multiple bowel resections who presented with 2.5 months of right upper-quadrant pain and found to have multiple gallstones and cystic …
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Nonampullary duodenal subepithelial neuroendocrine tumor removed R0 by ESD
Post written by Borathchakra Oung, MD, from the Department of Endoscopy and Gastroenterology, Edouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon, France. Managing lesions endoscopically in the duodenum can be challenging due to its thin wall and anatomically narrow lumen that limit endoscope maneuver. We reported a case of a subepithelial neuroendocrine tumor located in duodenal bulb just behind …
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Endoscopic unroofing drainage with a needle-knife for gastric wall abscess
Post written by Yusuke Hashimoto, MD, from the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Japan. This case describes a 68-year-old diabetic woman was referred for evaluation of a pancreatic tail mass (maximum diameter, 3.2 cm). To obtain specimens for histologic examination before neoadjuvant chemotherapy, transgastric EUS-FNA was performed with …
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Lesser curve approach to gastric peroral endoscopic myotomy
Post written by Danny Issa, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Weill Cornell Medicine/New York, Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, USA. We performed gastric peroral endoscopic myotomy (GPOEM) using a lesser curve approach on 3patients with severe gastroparesis refractory to medical therapy. Two of the patients had undergone prior GPOEM with the …
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Intraperitoneal echoendoscopy for rescue of a gastrojejunal anastomosis
Post written by Theodore W. James, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. We describe our experience rescuing a maldeployed lumen-apposing metal stent (LAMS) by passing an endoscopic ultrasound scope through the proximal end of the stent and re-puncturing the target bowel from within the …
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Stent-in-stent self-expandable metallic stent placement under direct cholangioscopy
Post written by Mitsuru Okuno, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Gifu Municipal Hospital, Gifu, Japan. Managing consequent jaundice caused by malignant hilar biliary obstruction (MHBO) is important. Endoscopic biliary drainage is the treatment of choice because of its limited invasiveness. However, in patients with surgically altered anatomy, especially those who have undergone Roux-en-Y …
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EUS-guided enterocolostomy for palliation of malignant distal small-bowel obstruction
Post written by Shelini Sooklal, MD, and Anand Kumar, MD, MPH, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Our video case describes the implementation of a therapeutic endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) technique to provide palliative relief of recurrent small bowel obstruction in a patient with metastatic adenocarcinoma of the colon …
Reversal and reloading of a 22-mm duodenal stent for urgent decompression of malignant colonic obstruction
Post written by Keshav Kukreja, MD, Aman Deep, MD, and Tomas DaVee, MD, MSCI, from the Department of Gastroenterology, USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, and the Interventional Gastroenterology at the University of Texas (iGUT), McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA. Our video case describes a 57-year-old woman …
Type VI choledochal cyst diagnosed on ERCP with direct cholangioscopy
Post written by Lawrence Ku, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA. This case highlights the diagnostic dilemma of differentiating between 2 types of choledochal cysts, type II versus type VI. Although rare, these choledochal cysts have significant malignant potential, ranging from 5 to 7.5%. Malignant transformation of type VI …
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Combination of immersion in saline solution, pocket-creation method, water-jet hydrodissection, and hybrid knife “probe mode”
Post written by Felipe Ramos-Zabala, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, HM Montepríncipe University Hospital, Boadilla del Monte, and the Department of Clinical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of CEU San Pablo, Madrid, Spain. In this video case report, we describe an endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) of a giant rectal polyp with granular nodular …