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• • ·TOC

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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Focus on…

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• • ·ASGE Update

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• • ·In Upcoming Issues

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• • ·April 2007 Instructions for Authors

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• • ·Information for Readers

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• Technology Status Evaluation Reports

  • ·Endoscopy in patients with implanted electronic devices

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    Prepared by: TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE, Bret T. Petersen, Nadeem Hussain, Joseph E. Marine, Richard G. Trohman, Steven Carpenter, Ram Chuttani, Joseph Croffie, James DiSario, Poonputt Chotiprasidhi, Julia Liu, Lehel Somogyi

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  • ·Implanted electronic devices at endoscopy: advice in a gray area

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    Bret T. Petersen

    
  • ·Guidewires for use in GI endoscopy

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    Prepared by: TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE, Lehel Somogyi, Ram Chuttani, Joseph Croffie, James DiSario, Julia Liu, Daniel Mishkin, Raj Shah, William Tierney, Louis M. Wong Kee Song, Bret T. Petersen

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• Original Articles

  • ·Blinded comparison of esophageal capsule endoscopy versus conventional endoscopy for a diagnosis of Barrett’s esophagus in patients with chronic gastroesophageal reflux

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    Otto S. Lin, Drew B. Schembre, Klaus Mergener, William Spaulding, Nicoline Lomah, Kamran Ayub, John J. Brandabur, James Bredfeldt, Fred Drennan, Michael Gluck, Geoffrey C. Jiranek, Susan E. McCormick, David Patterson, Richard A. Kozarek

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  • ·Prospective study of cross-infection from upper-GI endoscopy in a hepatitis C–prevalent population

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    Nabiel N. Mikhail, David L. Lewis, Nabiel Omar, Hossam Taha, Amal El-Badawy, Naglaa Abdel-Mawgoud, Mohamed Abdel-Hamid, George T. Strickland

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  • ·Hepatitis C virus cross-infection during endoscopy: is it the “tip of the iceberg” or the absence of ice?

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    Douglas B. Nelson

    
  • ·Effect of stent size on complications and recurrent dysphagia in patients with esophageal or gastric cardia cancer

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    Els M.L. Verschuur, Ewout W. Steyerberg, Ernst J. Kuipers, Peter D. Siersema

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  • ·Central intranodal blood vessel: a new EUS sign described in mediastinal lymph nodes

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    Mandeep S. Sawhney, Steven M. Debold, Robert A. Kratzke, Frank A. Lederle, Douglas B. Nelson, Rosemary F. Kelly

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  • ·Pancreatic-fluid collections: a randomized controlled trial regarding stent removal after endoscopic transmural drainage

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    Marianna Arvanitakis, Myriam Delhaye, Maria Antonietta Bali, Celso Matos, Viviane De Maertelaer, Olivier Le Moine, Jacques Devière

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  • ·What is the best endoscopic treatment for pancreatic pseudocysts?

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    Marc Giovannini

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  • ·Prophylactic administration of somatostatin or gabexate does not prevent pancreatitis after ERCP: an updated meta-analysis

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    Angelo Andriulli, Gioacchino Leandro, Telemaco Federici, Antonio Ippolito, Rosario Forlano, Angelo Iacobellis, Vito Annese

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  • ·Success rate of retrograde double-balloon enteroscopy

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    Shahab Mehdizadeh, Nancy J. Han, Derek W. Cheng, Gary C. Chen, Simon K. Lo

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  • ·Colorectal cancer screening with nurse-performed flexible sigmoidoscopy: results from a Canadian community-based program

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    Theodore F. Shapero, Jean Hoover, Lawrence F. Paszat, Elaine Burgis, Eugene Hsieh, Deanna M. Rothwell, Linda Rabeneck

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  • ·The bottom line: offer the colorectal cancer screening test that you can deliver

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    Deborah A. Fisher

    
  • ·Incidence of minor complications and time lost from normal activities after screening or surveillance colonoscopy

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    Cynthia W. Ko, Stacy Riffle, Jean A. Shapiro, Michael D. Saunders, Scott D. Lee, Bruce Y. Tung, Rahul Kuver, Anne M. Larson, Kris V. Kowdley, Michael B. Kimmey

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  • ·Minor complications in colonoscopy: Mars versus Venus, and preps matter too

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    William K. Hirota

    
  • ·Residue-free sodium phosphate tablets (OsmoPrep) versus Visicol for colon cleansing: a randomized, investigator-blinded trial

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    Lawrence Wruble, Michael DeMicco, Jeffrey Medoff, Alan Safdi, Jeffrey Bernstein, Douglas Dalke, Martin Rose, Robyn G. Karlstadt, Nancy Ettinger, Bing Zhang

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• CME Examination

  • ·CME Activity: Continuing Medical Education Exam: April 2007

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    Todd H. Baron, Brenna C. Bounds, Robert Sedlack, Allan P. Weston, G.S. Raju, George Triadafilopoulos

     

• The Fellows' Corner

  • ·How to approach your week at Digestive Disease Week

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    Kerry B. Dunbar

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• Thinking Outside the Box

  • ·Deconstruction of the endoscope

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    Michael L. Kochman, C. Paul Swain

    

• New Methods

  • ·Transesophageal mediastinoscopy by submucosal endoscopy with mucosal flap safety valve technique

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    Kazuki Sumiyama, Christopher J. Gostout, Elizabeth Rajan, Timothy A. Bakken, Mary A. Knipschield

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  • ·Gastrostomy port assisted full-thickness gastric resection by using the peroral SurgASSIST introduced via an oroesophageal overtube in a porcine model

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    John A. Evans, Francis E. Rosato, Gregory G. Ginsberg

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  • ·Submucosal endoscopy with mucosal flap safety valve

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    Kazuki Sumiyama, Christopher J. Gostout, Elizabeth Rajan, Timothy A. Bakken, Mary A. Knipschield, Ronald J. Marler

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  • ·Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery: a step toward clinical implementation?

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    Kazuo Inui

    
  • ·Study of full-thickness endoluminal segmental resection of colon in a porcine colon model (with videos)

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    Ijaz Ahmed, Goro Shibukawa, Royce Groce, Allison Poussard, Douglas Brining, Gottumukkala S. Raju

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• At the Focal Point

  • ·Bouveret’s syndrome

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    Zhuan Liao, Zhao-Shen Li, Ping Ye

     
  • ·Endoscopic treatment of Bouveret’s syndrome

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    Andrea Polistena, Francesco Santi, Riccardo Tiberi, Maurizio Bagarani

     
  • ·Subepithelial gastric lesions: don’t forget to look behind the stomach!

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    Jayapal Ramesh, Simon Lal, Derrick F. Martin, John R. Crampton

     
  • ·Diffuse luminal ulceration resulting from duodenal plasmacytoma

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    Andrew J. Fowell, David N. Poller, Richard D. Ellis

     
  • ·Whipworm infection resulting in eosinophilic colitis with occult intestinal bleeding

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    Vinay Chandrasekhara, Sami Arslanlar, Jayaprakash Sreenarasimhaiah

     
  • ·Pneumatosis coli due to pharmacological constipation

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    Cesar Prieto, Ignacio Fernandez-Urien, Bruno Sangro, Jose Carlos Subtil, Miguel Angel Idoate, David Cano, Miguel Muñoz-Navas

     
  • ·A case of adult T-cell leukemia with colon involvement

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    Tomoko Onishi, Satoru Tamura, Saburo Onishi

     

• Case Studies

  • ·A modified self-expanding Niti-S stent for the management of benign hypopharyngeal strictures

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    Massimo Conio, Sabrina Blanchi, Rosangela Filiberti, Alessandro Repici, Marco Barbieri, Claudio Bilardi, Peter D. Siersema

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  • ·Diagnosis of an aneurysm masquerading as a pancreatic-cyst lesion at EUS

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    Shyam Varadarajulu, Mohamad A. Eloubeidi

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  • ·Acute symptomatic small bowel obstruction due to capsule impaction

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    Otto S. Lin, John J. Brandabur, Drew B. Schembre, Maw-Soan Soon, Richard A. Kozarek

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• Brief Reports

  • ·Diagnosis of paraspinal abscess by EUS–guided FNA

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    Kathryn Clary, Shyam Varadarajulu, Cheri Canon, Nirag Jhala, Darshana N. Jhala

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  • ·PEG-tube placement in a patient with extreme obesity: overcoming the technical challenges

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    Arati S. Karhadkar, Pranitha Naini, Sudhir K. Dutta

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  • ·Endoscopic transgastric drainage of a subphrenic abscess

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    Christopher J. Goulet

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  • ·Endoscopic transduodenal drainage of the gallbladder: implications for endoluminal treatment of gallbladder disease

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    Todd H. Baron, Mark D. Topazian

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• Letters to the Editor

  • ·Predictors, predictions, and decision-making in palliation of esophageal cancer

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    Ewout W. Steyerberg, Peter D. Siersema

    
  • ·Response:

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    Stéphane Lecleire, Frédéric Di Fiore, Michel Antonietti, Philippe Ducrotté

    
  • ·The jury is still out on ERCP-related volume outcomes

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    Atul Kumar, Alissa Mark, Ravi Singh, LiMing Dong

    
  • ·Response:

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    Shyam Varadarajulu

    

• Erratum

  • ·Erratum

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