Post written by Deepak Madhu, MD, MRCP, DM, from the Department of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, NTT Medical Center Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. A 79-year-old patient underwent endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for resection of a colonic polyp. The resection was complicated by an intraprocedural perforation, which an endoscopic omental patch closed. A surveillance endoscopy performed 1 year later showed …
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Post written by Abel Joseph, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, and Kornpong Vantanasiri, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. Our study delves into endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for treating T1b esophageal cancer (EC). Specifically, we compared 2 approaches: ESD with traction (Tr-ESD), which uses …
GIE Associate Editor Seiichiro Abe, MD, PhD, FASGE, FJGES, highlights this article from the May issue: “Endoscopic submucosal dissection with versus without traction for pathologically staged T1B esophageal cancer: a multicenter retrospective study” by Abel Joseph, MD, et al. Guidelines recommend staging endoscopic resection for a visible neoplastic lesion in Barrett’s esophagus and noncircumferential esophageal …
Post written by Deepak Madhu, MD, MRCP, DM, from NTT Medical Center Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. An 83-year-old man with severe comorbidities underwent endoscopic submucosal dissection for early gastric cancer. Histologic analysis of the resected specimen showed that vertical margins were positive, and the tumor had deep submucosal invasion. In light of severe comorbidities, a multidisciplinary decision …
Post written by Guiqi Wang, MD, from the Department of Endoscopy, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China. This study retrospectively reviewed data from patients who underwent closure of rectal defects using endoscopic hand-suturing (EHS) with clips (EHS-Clips) at the Cancer Hospital …
Post written by Haruka Okada, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. We reported a case in which simultaneous bile duct injury with massive bile leakage and duodenal retroperitoneal perforation during endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for a large periampullary adenoma were successfully managed by …
Post written by Frieder Berr, MD, PhD, from the Department of Medicine I and Institute of Pathophysiology, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria. Annual hands-on endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) courses (3.3 days; Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria, 2009-2018) were conducted by leading Japanese experts to prime a senior endoscopist from 135 tertiary referral centers across Europe (plus …
Post written by Talia F. Malik, MD, from Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois, USA. In this study, we introduce a novel technique, “Endoscopic Mucosal Incisional, Closure, ResectiON (E-MICRON),” for safe and efficient en bloc resection of large gastric intramucosal lesions. Endoscopic submucosal dissection is recommended for en …
Post written by Fiona Milne, MD, from Queen's University, Kingston Health Sciences Centre, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Our case describes a 61-year-old man with a 3-decade history of recurrent cholecystitis who presented with Bouveret syndrome. A CT scan showed a 5-cm obstructing gallstone in the proximal duodenum. Surgery was considered to be high risk, given medical comorbidities. …
Post written by Xiuli Zuo, MD, PhD, from Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China. The focus of my study includes medical mechatronics, balloon enteroscopy, inflammatory bowel diseases, and early GI cancer diagnosis and endoscopic treatment. It is known that using a conventional endoscope to perform endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is difficult because of the 1-handed …
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