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• • ·Contents

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• • ·Editors

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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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• • ·March 2009 Instructions for Authors

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• • ·Information for readers

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• Technology Status Evaluation Reports

  • ·Update on CT colonography

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    Prepared by: ASGE TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE, Francis A. Farraye, Douglas G. Adler, Bipan Chand, Jason D. Conway, David L. Diehl, Sergey V. Kantsevoy, Richard S. Kwon, Petar Mamula, Sarah A. Rodriguez, Raj J. Shah, Louis Michel Wong Kee Song, William M. Tierney

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  • ·High-resolution and high-magnification endoscopes

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    Prepared by: ASGE TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE, Richard S. Kwon, Douglas G. Adler, Bipan Chand, Jason D. Conway, David L. Diehl, Sergey V. Kantsevoy, Petar Mamula, Sarah A. Rodriguez, Raj J. Shah, Louis Michel Wong Kee Song, William M. Tierney

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• Original Articles

  • ·Transnasal endoscopy with narrow-band imaging and Lugol staining to screen patients with head and neck cancer whose condition limits oral intubation with standard endoscope (with video)

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    Yi-Chia Lee, Cheng-Ping Wang, Chien-Chuan Chen, Han-Mo Chiu, Jenq-Yuh Ko, Pei-Jen Lou, Tsung-Lin Yang, Hsin-Yi Huang, Ming-Shiang Wu, Jaw-Town Lin, Tony Hsiu-Hsi Chen, Hsiu-Po Wang

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  • ·Reduction of capture rate in the stomach increases the complete examination rate of capsule endoscopy: a prospective randomized controlled trial

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    Zhuan Liao, Zhao-Shen Li, Can Xu

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  • ·Foreign-body ingestion: characteristics and outcomes in a lower socioeconomic population with predominantly intentional ingestion

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    Renee Palta, Amandeep Sahota, Ali Bemarki, Paul Salama, Nicole Simpson, Loren Laine

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  • ·Pancreatic-duct–lavage cytology in candidates for surgical resection of branch-duct intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the pancreas: should the International Consensus Guidelines be revised?

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    Jin Kan Sai, Masafumi Suyama, Yoshihiro Kubokawa, Sumio Watanabe, Tadayuki Maehara

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  • ·Why prune an elusive branch?

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    Lyndon V. Hernandez

    
  • ·Can wire-guided cannulation prevent post-ERCP pancreatitis? A prospective randomized trial

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    Tae Hoon Lee, Do Hyun Park, Ji-Young Park, Eun Ok Kim, Yeon Seon Lee, Jeong Hoon Park, Suck-Ho Lee, Il-Kwun Chung, Hong Soo Kim, Sang-Heum Park, Sun-Joo Kim

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  • ·Wire for hire? The impact of wire-guided cannulation in ERCP

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    Brian S. Lim, Joseph Leung

    
  • ·Safety and utility of ERCP during pregnancy

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    Shou-jiang Tang, Marlyn J. Mayo, Edmundo Rodriguez-Frias, Luis Armstrong, Linda Tang, Jayaprakash Sreenarasimhaiah, Luis F. Lara, Don C. Rockey

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  • ·Evaluation of recombinant platelet-activating factor acetylhydrolase for reducing the incidence and severity of post-ERCP acute pancreatitis

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    Stuart Sherman, Waleed M. Alazmi, Glen A. Lehman, Joseph E. Geenen, Ram Chuttani, Richard A. Kozarek, William D. Welch, Sonia Souza, John Pribble, rPAF-AH ERCP Study Group

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  • ·Timing of precut procedure does not influence success rate and complications of ERCP procedure: a prospective randomized comparative study

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    Vincenzo Cennamo, Lorenzo Fuccio, Alessandro Repici, Carlo Fabbri, Diego Grilli, Massimo Conio, Nicola D’Imperio, Franco Bazzoli

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  • ·Pre-cut sphincterotomy: does the timing matter?

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    Sri Prakash Misra

    
  • ·Yield of EUS-guided FNA on the diagnosis of pancreatic/peripancreatic tuberculosis

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    Tae Jun Song, Sang Soo Lee, Do Hyun Park, Tae Yoon Lee, Sang Oh Lee, Dong Wan Seo, Sung Koo Lee, Myung-Hwan Kim

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  • ·EUS-assisted band ligation of small duodenal stromal tumors and follow-up by EUS

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    Siyu Sun, Nan Ge, Sheng Wang, Xiang Liu, Qingjie Lü

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  • ·Can we reduce capsule endoscopy reading times?

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    Jessie Westerhof, Jan J. Koornstra, Rinse K. Weersma

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  • ·Significance of colonoscope length in cecal insertion time

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    Hang Lak Lee, Chang Soo Eun, Oh Young Lee, Yong Cheol Jeon, Dong Soo Han, Ju Hyun Sohn, Byung Chul Yoon, Ho Soon Choi, Joon Soo Hahm, Min Ho Lee, Dong Hoo Lee, Won Moon, Sang-Yeon Kim

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  • ·Experimental endoscopy: objective evaluation of EUS needles

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    Takao Itoi, Fumihide Itokawa, Toshio Kurihara, Atsushi Sofuni, Takayoshi Tsuchiya, Kentaro Ishii, Shujiro Tsuji, Nobuhito Ikeuchi, Takashi Kawai, Fuminori Moriyasu

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  • ·A novel approach for treatment of unresectable extrahepatic bile duct carcinoma: design of radioactive stents and an experimental trial in healthy pigs

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    Yan Liu, Jun-lou Liu, Zhen-zhai Cai, Zheng Lu, Yan-fang Gong, Hong-yu Wu, Xiao-hua Man, Zhen-dong Jin, Zhao-shen Li

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• CME Activity

  • ·Continuing Medical Education Exam: March 2009

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

    

• Fellows' Corner

  • ·How to choose a job after a GI fellowship (weighing family and city life against salary and research)

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    Amnon Sonnenberg

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• Special Article

  • ·Gastroenterologists’ experience with the 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative: a demonstration project

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    Brian C. Jacobson, Sheila J. Madhani, Colleen M. Schmitt

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• New Methods

  • ·Initial experience with EUS-guided Tru-cut biopsy of benign liver disease

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    John DeWitt, Kathleen McGreevy, Oscar Cummings, Stuart Sherman, Julia K. LeBlanc, Lee McHenry, Mohammad Al-Haddad, Naga Chalasani

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  • ·EUS-guided liver biopsy: a procedure looking for an indication

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    Diarmuid S. Manning, Nezam H. Afdhal

    
  • ·Impact of a novel water method on scheduled unsedated colonoscopy in U.S. veterans

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    Felix W. Leung, H. Steven Aharonian, Joseph W. Leung, Paul H. Guth, Guy Jackson

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  • ·Water-assisted unsedated colonoscopy: does the end justify the means?

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    Sharmeel K. Wasan, Paul C. Schroy

    
  • ·Hydrogen leak test is minimally invasive and highly specific for assessment of the integrity of the luminal closure after natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery procedures (with video)

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    Xavier Dray, Susan K. Redding, Eun J. Shin, Jonathan M. Buscaglia, Samuel A. Giday, Ronald J. Wroblewski, Lia Assumpcao, Devi Mukkai Krishnamurty, Priscilla Magno, Laurie J. Pipitone, Michael R. Marohn, Anthony N. Kalloo, Sergey V. Kantsevoy

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• At the Focal Point

  • ·Asymptomatic bronchial aspiration and retention of a capsule endoscope

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    John S. Leeds, Thean S. Chew, Reena Sidhu, Charles A. Elliot, David S. Sanders, Mark E. McAlindon

     
  • ·Pericardial tumor diagnosed by EUS-guided FNA (with video)

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    Rafael Romero-Castro, Juan Jose Rios-Martin, Pastora Gallego-Garcia de Vinuesa, Antonio J. Castro-Fernandez, Francisco J. Marques-Asin, Carlos Caparros-Escudero, Francisco Pellicer-Bautista, Juan M. Herrerias-Gutierrez

      
  • ·Submucosal tumor-like mucinous gastric adenocarcinoma showing mucin waterfall

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    Kyung Yeob Kim, Gwang Ha Kim, Jeong Heo, Dae Hwan Kang, Geun Am Song, Mong Cho

     
  • ·Complete resection of alpha-fetoprotein–producing early gastric cancer by using endoscopic submucosal dissection

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    Takahiro Horimatsu, Tomonori Yano, Toshihiko Doi, Satoshi Fujii, Kazuhiro Kaneko

     

• Case Studies

  • ·Unsedated colonoscopy: patient characteristics and satisfaction in a community-based endoscopy unit

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    John L. Petrini, James V. Egan, William V. Hahn

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  • ·PillCam Colon capsule endoscopy does not always complement incomplete colonoscopy

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    Konstantinos Triantafyllou, Panagiotis Tsibouris, Chryssostomos Kalantzis, Kostis Papaxoinis, Theodora Kalli, Nikolaos Kalantzis, Spiros D. Ladas

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• Brief Reports

  • ·Endoscopic management of acute esophageal dissection by using a covered, self-expanding metal stent (with video)

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    Daniel von Renteln, Bastian Walz, Bettina Riecken, Thomas Kayser, Karel Caca

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  • ·Endoscopic hemostasis of bleeding gastric ulcer with a combination of multiple hemoclips and endoloops

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    István Rácz, Tibor Kárász, Hussam Saleh

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  • ·Endoscopic evolution of a caustic injury to the gastric antrum

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    Venessa Pattullo, Michael J. Bourke, Sina Alexander, Jonard Co

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  • ·EUS-guided FNA diagnosis of primary splenic lymphoma

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    Ihab I. El Hajj, Asif Khalid, Karen E. Schoedel, Kareem M. Abu-Elmagd, Kevin M. McGrath, Kenneth E. Fasanella

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  • ·A rare case of histologically mixed-type intramucosal gastric cancer accompanied by nodal recurrence and liver metastasis after endoscopic submucosal dissection

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    Noboru Hanaoka, Satoshi Tanabe, Katsuhiko Higuchi, Tohru Sasaki, Kento Nakatani, Kenji Ishido, Takako Ae, Wasaburo Koizumi, Katsunori Saigenji, Tetuo Mikami

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  • ·Taking SpyGlass outside the GI tract lumen in conjunction with EUS to assist in the diagnosis of a pancreatic cystic lesion (with video)

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    Mainor R. Antillon, Priyanka Tiwari, Christopher R. Bartalos, John B. Marshall

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  • ·Pancreatic juice crystals: is it an early marker of chronic pancreatitis?

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    A.J. Joseph, Ebby George Simon, Sukesh Chandran, Ashok Chacko

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  • ·Inflammatory cloacogenic polyp: diagnostic features by confocal endomicroscopy

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    Silvia Sanduleanu, Ann Driessen, Wim Hameeteman, Wim van Gemert, Adriaan de Bruïne, Ad Masclee

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• Letters to the Editor

  • ·Rare occurrence of gastric pseudomelanosis

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    Fadi Antaki, Bradley C. Irwin, Edi Levi

     
  • ·Response:

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    Tae Hoon Lee, Suck-Ho Lee, IL-Kwun Chung, Sun-Joo Kim

    
  • ·Finding the ligament of Treitz

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    William L. Berger, Walter J. Hogan, Charles S. Marn, Gary S. Sudakoff

     
  • ·Response:

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    Jiro Watari, Ryu Sato, Yutaka Kohgo

     
  • ·Endoscopic vacuum-assisted closure of upper intestinal anastomotic leaks

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    Gunnar Loske, Christian Müller

    
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    Jochen Wedemeyer, Michael P. Manns

     
  • ·Agile patency system

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    Jan J. Koornstra, Rinse K. Weersma

    
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    Ari J. Bergwerk, Jonathan A. Leighton, Guido Costamagna, Samuel N. Adler, David T. Rubin, Juan Manuel Herrerías

    
  • ·Endoscopic removal of hollow colorectal foreign bodies with the use of a balloon catheter

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    Mitsunobu Matsushita, Masaaki Shimatani, Kazushige Uchida, Akiyoshi Nishio, Kazuichi Okazaki

     
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    Juan Carlos Munoz, Kenneth J. Vega