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• • ·EUS in cirrhotic patients with and without prior variceal hemorrhage in comparison with noncirrhotic control subjects

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    Douglas O. Faigel, Hugo R. Rosen, Anna Sasaki, Kenneth Flora, Kent Benner

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• • ·EUS in preoperative staging of pancreatic cancer

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    Nuzhat A. Ahmad, James D. Lewis, Gregory G. Ginsberg, Ernest F. Rosato, Jon B. Morris, Michael L. Kochman

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• • ·Endoscopic ultrasound criteria for vascular invasion in the staging of cancer of the head of the pancreas: A blind reevaluation of videotapes

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    Thomas Rösch, Hans-Joachim Dittler, Klaus Strobel, Alexander Meining, Volker Schusdziarra, Reinhard Lorenz, Hans-Dieter Allescher, Abdel Meguid Kassem, Paul Gerhardt, Jörg-Rüdiger Siewert, Heinz Höfler, Meinhard Classen

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• • ·Success of ERCP at a referral center after a previously unsuccessful attempt

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    C.P. Choudari, Stuart Sherman, Evan L. Fogel, Susan Phillips, Anne Kochell, Joyce Flueckiger, Glen A. Lehman

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• • ·Effectiveness of ERCP in cholangitis: A community-based study

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    Amitabh Chak, Gregory S. Cooper, Lynne E. Lloyd, Patricia J. Hammar, Khaled Issa, Gary E. Rosenthal

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• • ·Pigtail stents: An alternative in the treatment of difficult bile duct stones

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    Sushil K. Jain, Robert Stein, Manish Bhuva, Michael J. Goldberg

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• • ·Sphincterotomy-associated biliary strictures: Features and endoscopic management

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    Michael J. Bourke, Adam B. Elfant, Ralph Alhalel, David Scheider, Paul Kortan, Gregory B. Haber

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• • ·Endoscopic therapy for stenosis of the biliary and pancreatic duct orifices

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    Suresh Khandekar, James A. DiSario

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• • ·Transnasal versus transoral endoscopy for the placement of nasoenteral feeding tubes in critically ill patients

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    Daniel Külling, Peter Bauerfeind, Michael Fried

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• • ·Mucosal abnormalities of the colon in patients with portal hypertension: An endoscopic study

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    Edmund J. Bini, Chris E. Lascarides, Philip L. Micale, Elizabeth H. Weinshel

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• • ·Waiting lines in the endoscopy unit

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    Amnon Sonnenberg

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• • ·Traumatic cholecystitis

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    Bisher Daaboul, Ivan Damjanov, George Pierce, Gottumukkala S. Raju

    
• • ·Mucin-hypersecreting cholangiocarcinoma

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    Hyun-Ju Park, Dong-Wan Seo, Sung Koo Lee, Myung-Hwan Kim

    
• • ·Impacted chicken bone of the sigmoid colon: Endoscopic removal with balloon dilatation

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    Yoon-Tae Jeen, Hoon-Jae Chun, Chi-Wook Song, Soon-Ho Um, Chang-Duk Kim, Ho-Sang Ryu, Jin-Hai Hyun

    
• • ·Schwannoma of the sigmoid colon

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    Yoshiaki Horio, Fumitoshi Watanabe, Kyousuke Shirakawa, Masanobu Kageoka, Hirohiko Iwasaki, Yasuhiko Maruyama, Satoshi Honda, Yasuhiko Kitayama, Hiroyuki Hanai

    
• • ·Preoperative staging of rectal cancer using a 7.5 MHz front-loading US probe

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    Kazuya Akahoshi, Atsushi Kondoh, Takashi Nagaie, Nobuhiro Koyanagi, Kazuo Nakanishi, Naohiko Harada, Hajime Nawata

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• • ·EUS-guided fine-needle aspiration cytodiagnosis of hilar cholangiocarcinoma: A case series

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    Annette Fritscher-Ravens, Dieter C. Broering, Parupudi V.J. Sriram, Theodoros Topalidis, Stefan Jaeckle, Frank Thonke, Nib Soehendra

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• • ·Endoscopic transhepatic repair of the common hepatic duct after excision during cholecystectomy

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    Jean-Marc Dumonceau, Michel Baize, Jacques Devière

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• • ·Secondary esophageal tuberculosis in a patient with thymoma

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    Kazunari Tominaga, Kazuhide Higuchi, Toshio Watanabe, Yasuhiro Fujiwara, Toshiyuki Uchida, Tetsuo Arakawa, Tetsuo Kuroki

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• • ·EUS-guided transesophageal pancreatic pseudocyst drainage

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    Todd H. Baron, Maurits J. Wiersema

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• • ·A bleeding gastric ulcer on a vanishing tumor caused by anisakiasis

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    Ken Takeuchi, Hiroyuki Hanai, Takayuki Iida, Shuji Suzuki, Shigeru Isobe

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• • ·Peutz-Jeghers syndrome managed with a complete intraoperative endoscopy and extensive polypectomy

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    Rafael Amaro, Gloria Diaz, Jeffrey Schneider, Michael D. Hellinger, Neil H. Stollman

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• • ·Heparin provocation for endoscopic localization of recurrent obscure GI hemorrhage

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    Charles Berkelhammer, Andrew Radvany, Anthony Lin, William Hopkins, John Principe

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• • ·Hemoclip repair of a sphincterotomy-induced duodenal perforation

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    Todd H. Baron, Christopher J. Gostout, Lori Herman

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• • ·Rectus muscle abscess associated with endoscopic tattooing of the colon with India ink

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    Laura M. Alba, Prashant K. Pandya, Wendell K. Clarkston

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• • ·A case of intramural esophageal hematoma: complication of anticoagulation with heparin

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    Kentaro Yamashita, Hiroyuki Okuda, Hiroshi Fukushima, Yoshiaki Arimura, Takao Endo, Kohzoh Imai

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• • ·Esophageal web in Zinsser-Engman-Cole-Fanconi disease

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    Christine de Roux-Serratrice, Jacques Serratrice, Jean-Marc Escoffier, Brigitte Granel, Patrick Disdier, Pierre Jean Weiller

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• • ·Pancreatic glucagonoma as a rare cause of chronic obstructive pancreatitis

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    Oliver Pech, Thomas Lingenfelser, Peter Wünsch

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• • ·Needle knife precut-induced bleeding from a “pancreatic cyst”

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    Thorsten Pohle, Wolfram Domschke, Markus M. Lerch

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• • ·Gastroduodenal intussusception secondary to a giant solitary gastric heterotopia: A case report

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    Masanori Nakagawara, Masayoshi Kajimura, Hiroyuki Hanai, Shin-ichi Shimizu, Hiroshi Kobayashi

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• • ·Plastic prosthesis in the palliation of small bowel stenosis secondary to recurrent gastric cancer: initial cost savings

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    Mitsunobu Matsushita, Kiyoshi Hajiro, Hiroshi Takakuwa, Akiyoshi Nishio, Fusako Kusumi

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• • ·Peutz-Jeghers syndrome associated with adenocarcinoma and protein-losing enteropathy

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    Herná Ianniccillo, Carlos Varsky, Mariana Rizzolo, Alejandro Dutack, Nadina Frider, Vicente Villafañe

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• • ·The value of EUS in the management of portal hypertension

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    Arun J. Sanyal

    
• • ·Role of EUS in the evaluation of pancreatic adenocarcinoma

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    Maurits J. Wiersema, Ian D. Norton, Jonathan E. Clain

    
• • ·Endoscopy Around the World: Abstracts

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• • ·Endoscopy Around the World: Abstracts

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• • ·Endoscopy Around the World: Abstracts

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• • ·The flexible sigmoidoscope

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    Douglas Rex, Wendy Atkin, Geir Hoff, Jerome Waye

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• • ·Colonoscopy versus flexible sigmoidoscopy in evaluation of chronicdiarrhea

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    Radhika Srinivasan, David M. Friedel

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• • ·Response

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    Kenneth D. Fine

    
• • ·Measuring location of neoplasms and lesions in therectum

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    John B. Marshall

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• • ·Therapy of Digestive Disorders

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    Gerard Isenberg

    
• • ·Surgery of the Anus, Rectum and Colon

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    Harry L. Reynolds