Top tips for successful endoscopic hemorrhoid banding (with video)

Post written by Waqar Qureshi, MD, FASGE, from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA. With the proper technique, nonsurgical hemorrhoid treatment is safe and effective and performed in the office. Historically, training of gastroenterologists has lacked focus on benign anorectal disease and its diagnosis and management. Symptomatic hemorrhoids are extremely common, particularly after age 50 …

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Clip band ligation ablation

Post written by Shou-jiang Tang, MD, from the Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi. The author reports a 56-year-old woman with an 11-mm biopsy-proven duodenal bulb low-grade neuroendocrine tumor (NET) or carcinoid tumor. She was referred by surgery for endoscopic ablation. Using a multi-band ligator device (Saeed …

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