Post written by Shajan Peter, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Basil Hirschowitz Center of Advanced Endoscopy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. We examined cases over 5 years of enteral tube feeding placement. We further divided the patients into cohorts for the traditional open laparotomy approach, laparoscopic jejunostomy, and direct percutaneous endoscopic …
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A case of laparoscopy and endoscopy cooperative surgery for circumferential superficial nonampullary duodenal epithelial tumor
Post written by Osamu Dohi, MD, PhD, from the Department of Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan. An 84-year-old woman had a circumferential SNADET that was detected during esophagogastroduodenoscopy. We performed laparoscopy and endoscopy cooperative surgery (LECS) with ESD technique and laparoscopic closure for the …
Intraoperative laparoscopic-assisted pancreatoscopy
Toufic Kachaamy, MD and Rahul Pannala, MD present this case from the VideoGIE section "Intraoperative laparoscopic-assisted pancreatoscopy and its role in differentiating main duct intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm from chronic pancreatitis." This case describes the multidisciplinary management of a patient with a severely dilated pancreatic duct suspicious for main duct intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN). …
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Iatrogenic bile duct obstruction
Aijaz A. Sofi, MD, FACP from the University of Toledo Medical Center in Toledo, Ohio, USA shares his New Methods article "A simultaneous endoscopic and laparoscopic approach for management of early iatrogenic bile duct obstruction." In this study, we present a novel method of concurrent endoscopic and laparoscopic approach in patients with iatrogenic bile duct …
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