Post written by Varun Jain, MD, MBA, and Sultan Mahmood, MD, FASGE, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. We present a case of endoscopic mesorectal dissection (EMD) performed for staging and potential treatment of a residual rectal adenocarcinoma following incomplete hot snare polypectomy. A 67-year-old man underwent colonoscopy after a …
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Application of optical character recognition with natural language processing for large-scale quality metric data extraction in colonoscopy reports
Post written by Sobia Nasir Laique, MD, and Umar Hayat, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, Arizona, and Division of Gastroenterology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The focus of our study was to demonstrate the use of a new hybrid approach using natural language processing of charts that have …
Pathology definitions and resection strategies for early colorectal neoplasia
Post written by Makoto Nishimura, MD, from the Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA. Well-known discrepancies exist between the East and West classifications of colorectal neoplasia. For example, ‘intra-mucosal carcinoma’ in Japan is recognized as ‘high-grade dysplasia’ in the U.S. To resolve these interobserver discrepancies between …
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