Post written by Sho Suzuki, MD, PhD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. We conducted this prospective, randomized, exploratory study to investigate the resection width and depth achieved by cold snare polypectomy (CSP) for small colorectal polyps compared to those achieved by hot snare …
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Post written by Rapat Pittayanon, MD, MSc, and Alan Barkun, MD, MSc, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University and King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital of the Thai Red Cross, Bangkok, Thailand, and the Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University and the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada. This study was focusing on prognostic …
Post written by Antti Siiki, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Alimentary Tract Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland. Our group (Siiki, Rinta-Kiikka, Sand, and Laukkarinen) reported the first long-term results of endoscopically inserted biodegradable stents in human bile duct. The novel stents were used in 2 indications in ERCP with a standard …
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Post written by Michael A. Scaffidi, BSc(Hon), MEd, and Catharine M. Walsh, MD, MEd, PhD, from the Division of Gastroenterology, St. Michael’s Hospital and the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Assessment is a critical process to determine endoscopic competence. Real-time, or “live” assessment, involves an …
Post written by Michael A. Scaffidi, BSc(Hon) MEd, and Catharine M. Walsh, MD, MEd, PhD, FRCPC, from the Division of Gastroenterology, St. Michael’s Hospital and the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Assessment of gastrointestinal endoscopy competence is integral to delivering high-quality patient care. Endoscopic competence …
Continue reading Impact of experience on self-assessment accuracy of clinical colonoscopy competence
Associate Editor, Dr. Seth Gross, highlights this article from the March issue “Inadequate Boston Bowel Preparation Scale scores predict the risk of missed neoplasia on the next colonoscopy” by Matthew A. Kluge, MD, et al. This article further supports the notion of the importance of bowel preparation and its impact on adenoma detection. The study demonstrates …
Post written by Kenneth Barshop, MD, from the Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. This study demonstrated a potential new application of an existing technique, endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR), to aid in the diagnosis of Hirschsprung’s Disease. While EMR has been established as a therapeutic and diagnostic procedure …
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 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 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
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