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• • ·Contents

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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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• • ·Capsule Summaries

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• • ·February 2008 Instructions for Authors

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• • ·Instructions for Readers

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• Original Articles

  • ·Impact of staging transesophageal EUS on treatment and survival in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer

    Pagina :193-198

    Mohamad A. Eloubeidi, Renee Desmond, Shilpa Desai, Mohit Mehra, Ayesha Bryant, Robert J. Cerfolio

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  • ·Invasive mediastinal staging for non–small-cell lung cancer

    Pagina :199-201

    Linda W. Martin

    
  • ·Clinical impact of endoscopic submucosal dissection for superficial adenocarcinoma located at the esophagogastric junction

    Pagina :202-209

    Shigetaka Yoshinaga, Takuji Gotoda, Chika Kusano, Ichiro Oda, Kazuhiko Nakamura, Ryoichi Takayanagi

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  • ·Correlation between narrow band imaging and nonneoplastic gastric pathology: a pilot feasibility trial

    Pagina :210-216

    Ajay Bansal, Ozlem Ulusarac, Sharad Mathur, Prateek Sharma

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  • ·Toward an endoscopic approach to assessment of pathology

    Pagina :217-218

    Jean-François Rey

    
  • ·Bleeding gastric vascular ectasia treated by argon plasma coagulation: a comparison between patients with and without cirrhosis

    Pagina :219-225

    Stéphane Lecleire, Emmanuel Ben-Soussan, Michel Antonietti, Odile Goria, Ghassan Riachi, Eric Lerebours, Philippe Ducrotté

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  • ·Optimal band imaging system can facilitate detection of changes in depressed-type early gastric cancer

    Pagina :226-234

    Hiroyuki Osawa, Mitsuyo Yoshizawa, Hironori Yamamoto, Hiroto Kita, Kiichi Satoh, Hirohide Ohnishi, Hidetoshi Nakano, Masahiro Wada, Masayuki Arashiro, Mamiko Tsukui, Kenichi Ido, Kentaro Sugano

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  • ·EUS: a meta-analysis of test performance in suspected choledocholithiasis

    Pagina :235-244

    Frances Tse, Louis Liu, Alan N. Barkun, David Armstrong, Paul Moayyedi

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  • ·Clinical usefulness of a treatment algorithm for pancreatic pseudocysts

    Pagina :245-252

    Marc Barthet, Gatien Lamblin, Mohamed Gasmi, Veronique Vitton, Ariadne Desjeux, Jean-Charles Grimaud

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  • ·Clinical usefulness of a treatment algorithm for pancreatic pseudocysts

    Pagina :253-254

    Hung S. Ho

    
  • ·Pancreatic duct stent placement prevents post-ERCP pancreatitis in patients with suspected sphincter of Oddi dysfunction but normal manometry results

    Pagina :255-261

    Abdo M. Saad, Evan L. Fogel, Lee McHenry, James L. Watkins, Stuart Sherman, Laura Lazzell-Pannell, Glen A. Lehman

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  • ·Temporary prophylactic pancreatic stents: which patients need them?

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    Grace H. Elta

    
  • ·Success rate of direct percutaneous endoscopic jejunostomy in patients who are obese

    Pagina :265-269

    Scott H. Mackenzie, Derrick Haslem, Kristen Hilden, Kristen L. Thomas, John C. Fang

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  • ·Direct percutaneous endoscopic jejunostomy in the obese: proceed with caution

    Pagina :270-272

    John T. Maple

    
  • ·Link between a preference for women colonoscopists and social status in Korean women

    Pagina :273-277

    Sun-Young Lee, Sang Kyun Yu, Jeong Hwan Kim, In-Kyung Sung, Hyung-Seok Park, Choon-Jo Jin, Won Hyeok Choe, So Young Kwon, Chang Hong Lee, Kyoo Wan Choi

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  • ·One size does not fit all

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    Jennifer Christie

    
  • ·Narrow-band imaging colonoscopy—a pilot feasibility study for the detection of polyps and correlation of surface patterns with polyp histologic diagnosis

    Pagina :280-286

    Amit Rastogi, Ajay Bansal, Sachin Wani, Peggy Callahan, Douglas H. McGregor, Rachel Cherian, Prateek Sharma

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  • ·Use of a magnetic sphincter for the treatment of GERD: a feasibility study

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    Robert A. Ganz, Christopher J. Gostout, Jerry Grudem, William Swanson, Todd Berg, Tom R. DeMeester

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  • ·Magnetic enhancement of the lower esophageal sphincter

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    Peter J. Kahrilas

    
  • ·Evaluation of endoscopic approaches for deep gastric-muscle–wall biopsies: what works?

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    Elizabeth Rajan, Christopher J. Gostout, Matthew S. Lurken, Nicholas J. Talley, G. Richard Locke, Lawrence A. Szarka, Michael J. Levy, Kazuki Sumiyama, Jose G. de la Mora-Levy, Timothy A. Bakken, Gary J. Stoltz, Mary A. Knipschield, Gianrico Farrugia

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  • ·Double-EMR–derived full-thickness biopsy and functional GI disorders

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    Felix W. Leung

    

• CME Examination

  • ·CME Activity: Continuing Medical Education Exam: February 2008

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

     

• The Fellows' Corner

  • ·Manuscript writing

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    Hashem B. El-Serag

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• Review Article

  • ·Injection therapies for variceal bleeding disorders of the GI tract

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    Walter G. Park, Ronald W. Yeh, George Triadafilopoulos

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• New Methods

  • ·Endoscopic mucosal ablation for the treatment of gastric antral vascular ectasia with the HALO⁹⁰ system: a pilot study

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    Seth Andrew Gross, Mohammad Al-Haddad, Kanwar R.S. Gill, Anthony N. Schore, Michael B. Wallace

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  • ·Initial experience of transnasal endoscopic biliary drainage without conscious sedation for the treatment of acute cholangitis (with video)

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    Takao Itoi, Takashi Kawai, Fumihide Itokawa, Atushi Sofuni, Toshio Kurihara, Takayoshi Tsuchiya, Kentaro Ishii, Shujiro Tsuji, Nobuhito Ikeuchi, Mami Takeuchi, Yoshihiro Sakai, Fuminori Moriyasu

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  • ·En bloc endoscopic submucosal dissection of a 14-cm laterally spreading adenoma of the rectum with involvement to the anal canal: expanding the frontiers of endoscopic surgery (with video)

    Pagina :332-337

    Mainor R. Antillon, Christopher R. Bartalos, Marc L. Miller, Alberto A. Diaz-Arias, Jamal A. Ibdah, John B. Marshall

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  • ·EUS-guided portal vein catheterization: a promising novel approach for portal angiography and portal vein pressure measurements

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    Samuel A. Giday, John O. Clarke, Jonathan M. Buscaglia, Eun J. Shin, Chung-Wang Ko, Priscilla Magno, Sergey V. Kantsevoy

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  • ·EUS is an important new tool for accessing the portal vein

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    William R. Brugge

    

• At the Focal Point

  • ·Anemia caused by a gastric inflammatory fibroid polyp

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    Kyosuke Tanaka, Hideki Toyoda, Ichiro Imoto, Yasuhiko Hamada, Masatoshi Aoki, Ryo Kosaka, Tomohiro Noda, Yoshiyuki Takei

     
  • ·Laparoscopic appearance of Cruveilhier-Baumgarten syndrome, dilated Sappey’s veins, and early caput medusae

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    Kent-Man Chu

     
  • ·An unusual gall bladder

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    Tim J. White, Philip V. Kaye, Linda Morgan, Dileep N. Lobo

     
  • ·Superior mesenteric artery syndrome (with video)

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    Jeong Hoon Park, Suck-Ho Lee, Do Hyun Park, Ji-Young Park, Sang-Heum Park, Il-Kwun Chung, Sun-Joo Kim

      
  • ·Endoscopic visualization of embolization coil in a duodenal ulcer

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    Gurjit Singh, Mark Denyer, Jai V. Patel

     
  • ·Endometriosis causing ileocecal intussusception

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    Charles Maltz, Toyooki Sonoda, Rhonda K. Yantiss

     
  • ·Leukemic cell infiltration into the large intestine in a patient with acute myelogenous leukemia

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    Michiko Iwamoto, Hironori Yamamoto, Tomohiko Miyata, Keijiro Sunada, Kentaro Sugano, Keiya Ozawa

     

• Case Studies

  • ·Endoscopic submucosal dissection of recurrent or residual superficial esophageal cancer after chemoradiotherapy

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    Yutaka Saito, Hajime Takisawa, Haruhisa Suzuki, Kouhei Takizawa, Chizu Yokoi, Satoru Nonaka, Takahisa Matsuda, Yukihiro Nakanishi, Ken Kato

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  • ·Endoscopic submucosal dissection for cancers of the remnant stomach after distal gastrectomy

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    Ryuta Takenaka, Yoshiro Kawahara, Hiroyuki Okada, Takao Tsuzuki, Satoru Yagi, Jun Kato, Nobuya Ohara, Tadashi Yoshino, Atsushi Imagawa, Shigeatsu Fujiki, Rie Takata, Masahiro Nakagawa, Motowo Mizuno, Tomoki Inaba, Tatsuya Toyokawa, Kohsaku Sakaguchi

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  • ·Commitment, confirmation, and clearance: new techniques for nonradiation ERCP during pregnancy (with videos)

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    Joseph Shelton, Jeffrey D. Linder, Manuel E. Rivera-Alsina, Paul R. Tarnasky

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  • ·Endoscopic trimming of metallic stents with the use of argon plasma

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    Paul Christiaens, Sofie Decock, Otto Buchel, Katrien Bulté, Veerle Moons, Geert D’Haens, Gust Van Olmen

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• Brief Reports

  • ·Knitting the mesh

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    Luis María Bourbon, Gini Gustavo Atilio, Lopez Gaffney Alejandro Pablo

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  • ·High-resolution EUS to differentiate hypertrophic pyloric stenosis

    Pagina :375-376

    Khalid Khan

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  • ·Facial subcutaneous emphysema as a rare manifestation of complications after endoscopic papillary balloon dilation

    Pagina :377-378

    Chin-Hsiang Yang, Feng-I. Su, Chi-Ying Lin, Yueh-Wei Liu, Shyr-Ming Sheen-Chen

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  • ·Subcapsular hepatic hematoma after ERCP

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    Kate S. McArthur, Peter R. Mills

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  • ·Transduodenal endoscopic necrosectomy via pancreaticoduodenal fistula for infected peripancreatic necrosis with left pararenal space extension (with videos)

    Pagina :380-383

    Sang Goo Kang, Do Hyun Park, Tae Hee Kwon, Ji Young Park, Sang-Heum Park, Jeong Hoon Park, Suck-Ho Lee, Il-Kwun Chung, Hong-Soo Kim, Sun-Joo Kim

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  • ·Presacral schwannoma diagnosed by EUS-guided FNA

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    Patrick E. Young, Scott Oosterveen, Nader Hanna, Peter E. Darwin

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• Letters to the Editor

  • ·Making a precise diagnosis of the submucosal gastric carcinoma beyond 500 μm is more practical for therapeutic decision making, and ulceration could be one of the limitations of infrared fluorescence endoscopy

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    Kenshi Yao

    
  • ·Response:

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    Tetsuo Kimura, Naoki Muguruma

    
  • ·Nasobiliary drainage for traumatic bile duct injury

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    Vui Heng Chong, Anand Jalihal, Kim Khee Tan

     
  • ·Endoscopic management of traumatic bile leaks

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    Shyam Varadarajulu

    
  • ·Improving control of the colonoscope: the “pinkie maneuver”

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    Moises Guelrud

     
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    Mitchell S. Cappell

    

• Erratum

  • ·Erratum

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