Gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies are often detected at advanced stages when the prognosis
is poor. Advanced GI malignancies are rarely curable with the current treatment modalities …

Figure 1: Ultrasonograms from an 81-year-old man with hemorrhagic cholecystitis.(A) Point-of-care
ultrasonography shows the gallbladder lumen filled with mixed echogenic material (…

Endoscopy plays a central role in the management of portal hypertension contributing to:
early detection of esophageal and gastric varices (EGV); stratification of patients in terms of …

Octreotide also has been shown to block the effects of epidermal growth factor. 8-10 It was
postulated by us that this inhibition of epidermal growth factor accounts for the effectiveness of …

BACKGROUND “Since its introduction, in the 1980s, endoscopic ultrasonography has been
shown to be a safe and effective diagnostic and therapeutic tool for the evaluation of …

Aims: Wireless capsule endoscopy (CE) has become an important tool in the investigation
of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding. The second generation of the device has an automatic …

Background and Aim: In recent years there have been many reports that endoscopic thermal
ablation, such as argon plasma coagulation (APC), is effective in controlling bleeding from …

Purpose: To evaluate the clinical outcome of patients undergoing endoscopic papillectomy
of the major papilla. Methods: Patients were identified from databases at 2 centers (1990-…

Il est généralement admis que les nitrates organiques agissent via une biotransformation
vasculaire en un activateur de guanylyl cyclase (probablement NO) induisant une …

… Monkewich and Haber should be of great interest to gastrointestinal endoscopists, but
should also provide useful information to internists and other generalists about these rapidly …