Post written by Yang-Bor Lu, MD, from the Department of Digestive Diseases, Digestive Endoscopy Center, Xiamen Chang Gung Hospital, Xiamen, China. We performed single-operator endoscopic direct appendiceal therapy (EDAT) by first using a slim endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) miniprobe (Olympus UM-2R, Tokyo, Japan) to map the appendiceal axis then steering a disposable cholangioscope (VedVision, TY-ISS-L31; Vedkang, …
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Prophylactic appendiceal retrograde intraluminal stent placement (PARIS)
Post written by Margaret G. Keane, MBBS, MSc, from the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Baltimore, Maryland. In our video, we describe the case of a 52-year-old man who was referred to our institution for the management of a 1.5-cm semi-pedunculated polyp that was found during a routine screening colonoscopy. The polyp …
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