Confocal laser endomicroscopic finding of lymphoma of the duodenal papilla

Post written by Yuki Tanisaka, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, Saitama, Japan. We report our experience with confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE) imaging of lymphoma of the duodenal papilla with the corresponding histopathologic images. Our patient was an 83-year-old man with an endoscopic finding of a depressed lesion …

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pCLE and solitary rectal ulcer syndrome

Post written by Yunlu Feng, MD,  and Aiming Yang, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, in Beijing, China Our article reported a 34-year-old male Chinese patient who presented with feeling of incomplete defecation and abdominal pain for more than 10 years. Colonoscopy showed a single rectal ulcer. Magnetic resonance imagine showed localized rectal …

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pCLE for differential diagnosis of gastric tubular adenoma and IM

Elisa Ryoka Baba, MD, from the Institute of Cancer of the Department of Gastroenterology, University of São Paulo Medical School, in São Paulo, Brazil writes about this video case "Probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy for the differential diagnosis of gastric tubular adenoma and intestinal metaplasia in a patient with severe atrophic pangastritis." We reported a 65-year-old …

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Author Discussion Series- Joo Young Cho

An Original Article: Human Clinical Trial from the June issue: "The accuracy of probe-based confocal endomicroscopy versus conventional endoscopic biopsies for the diagnosis of superficial gastric neoplasia (with videos)" by Gene Hyun Bok, MD, Seong Ran Jeon, MD, Joo Young Cho, MD, Jun-Hyung Cho, MD, Woong Cheul Lee, MD, So Young Jin, MD, In Ho …

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