Motorized spiral enteroscope-assisted retrieval of video capsule in a patient with Crohn’s disease

Post written by Mohan Ramchandani, MD, DM, from the Department of Medical Gastroenterology, AIG Hospitals, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. We describe a case of  young man with history of chronic kidney disease on maintenance hemodialysis. He underwent capsule endoscopy (CE) 6 months ago for evaluation of obscure occult gastrointestinal bleeding requiring multiple transfusions. CE revealed ileal stricture, …

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Ethics in publication

Michael Wallace, MD, MPH, FASGE, from the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, USA and the Editor-in-Chief of GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy discusses this article "Ethics in publication." This articles reviews key ethical issues that arise in publication of scientific article such as authorship, plagiarism, and text-recycling. The intense pressure to publish in academia has led to rare …

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New Tools for Identifying Plagiarism in Academic Publishing

iThenticate, CrossCheck, EES…How do they fit into the GIE picture? The GIE online submission system, EES (Elsevier Editorial System), now automatically runs every submitted article through CrossCheck. CrossCheck is powered by iThenticate originality detection software, so for those of us who use EES, CrossCheck can be thought of as a very handy version of iThenticate. …

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