Post written by Shyam Menon, MSc, MD, FRCP, from the Department of Liver Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham, NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Post liver transplantation anastomotic strictures can be technically challenging to manage. We describe a patient who presented a few months after liver transplantation with progressively deteriorating liver function tests and an episode …
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Post written by Kazuki Boda, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan. The focus of our study was to investigate the clinical outcomes of colorectal endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) at a regional level. Because the morbidity associated with colon carcinomas is rising in Japan, the number of ESDs for …
Continue reading Clinical outcomes of endoscopic submucosal dissection for colorectal tumors
Post written by Tomoaki Tashima, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, Saitama, Japan. A 52-year-old man was found to have a flat-elevated tumor measuring approximately 10 mm in diameter in the second part of the duodenum. First, the border of the target lesion was marked using the tip of …
Post written by Dan Li, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Santa Clara, California, USA. In this retrospective cohort study, we sought to investigate whether educational training significantly improved the diagnosis rate of sessile serrated adenoma (SSA) among community gastroenterologists and pathologists. In addition, we also examined patient-level predictors of SSA …
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Post written by Harry R. Aslanian, MD, from the Section of Digestive Disease, Yale New Haven Medical Center, School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. We present a series of cases highlighting the EUS features of cystic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. Pancreas neuroendocrine tumors are rare and are less commonly cystic. The recognition and targeting of wall …
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Post written by Ivo Boškoski, MD, PhD, from the Fondazione Policlinico Gemelli, Rome, Italy, and IHU, Istitut de Chirurgie Guidée par l’Image, Strasbourg, France. This is a unique video case in which we used the Boškoski-Costamagna ERCP trainer, a duodenoscope and a specially designed pen, to write the word ERCP. This video shows to young …
Continue reading New methods of teaching the axis in ERCP: Can I write my name?
Post written by Ping-Hong Zhou, MD, PhD, from the Endoscopy Center, Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University and Endoscopy Research Institute of Fudan University, Shanghai, China. We investigated the efficacy and safety of endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) of colorectal submucosal tumors (SMTs) in a large series of patients and examined its long-term outcomes in our study. …
Continue reading Efficacy and safety of ESD for submucosal tumors of the colon and rectum
Associate Editor, Dr. John Saltzman, MD, FASGE, highlights this article from the February issue “Effect of scheduled second-look endoscopy on peptic ulcer bleeding: a prospective randomized multicenter trial” by Soo Jung Park, MD, PhD, et al. Rebleeding remains an important cause of morbidity and mortality among patients undergoing endoscopic therapy for upper GI bleeding. Second-look …
Continue reading Editor’s Choice: Effect of scheduled second-look endoscopy on peptic ulcer bleeding
Post written by Osamu Goto, MD, PhD, from the Division of Research and Development for Minimally Invasive Treatment, Cancer Center, Keio University, School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. This article is focusing on the importance of non-exposure technique in local resection for early gastric cancers. We prospectively investigated the ability of cancer cells to be detached …
Continue reading Potential for peritoneal cancer cell seeding in endoscopic full-thickness resection
Post written by Mohamed O. Othman, MD, from the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Section, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States. Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) has been used successfully for treating early gastric cancer. The Japanese Gastric Cancer association had previously published the standard criteria for ESD in early gastric cancer, which included non-ulcerated differentiated …
Continue reading The incidence of lymph node metastasis in early gastric cancer
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