Sommario

• • ·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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• • ·May 2009 Instructions for Authors

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• • ·Information for readers

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• Technology Status Evaluation Reports

  • ·Endoscopic hemostatic devices

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    Prepared by: ASGE TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE, Jason D. Conway, Douglas G. Adler, David L. Diehl, Francis A. Farraye, Sergey V. Kantsevoy, Vivek Kaul, Sripathi R. Kethu, Richard S. Kwon, Petar Mamula, Sarah A. Rodriguez, William M. Tierney

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  • ·Endoscopic retrieval devices

    Pagina :997-1003

    Prepared by: ASGE TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE, David L. Diehl, Douglas G. Adler, Jason D. Conway, Francis A. Farraye, Sergey V. Kantsevoy, Vivek Kaul, Sripathi R. Kethu, Richard S. Kwon, Petar Mamula, Sarah A. Rodriguez, William M. Tierney

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• Original Articles

  • ·Diagnosing Barrett’s esophagus: reliability of clinical and pathologic diagnoses

    Pagina :1004-1010

    Douglas A. Corley, Ai Kubo, Jolanda DeBoer, Gregory J. Rumore

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  • ·It takes two to tango: dance steps for diagnosing Barrett’s esophagus

    Pagina :1011-1013

    Joel H. Rubenstein

    
  • ·Risk factors for the detection of Barrett’s esophagus in patients with erosive esophagitis

    Pagina :1014-1020

    Nir Modiano, Lauren B. Gerson

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  • ·Diagnostic yield of methylene blue chromoendoscopy for detecting specialized intestinal metaplasia and dysplasia in Barrett’s esophagus: a meta-analysis

    Pagina :1021-1028

    Saowanee Ngamruengphong, Virender K. Sharma, Ananya Das

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  • ·Primary incisional therapy with a modified method for patients with benign anastomotic esophageal stricture

    Pagina :1029-1033

    Tae Hoon Lee, Suck-Ho Lee, Ji-Young Park, Chang Kyun Lee, Il-Kwun Chung, Hong Soo Kim, Sang-Heum Park, Sun-Joo Kim, Su Jin Hong, Moon Sung Lee

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  • ·Endoscopic treatment of gastroesophageal varices in young infants with cyanoacrylate glue: a pilot study

    Pagina :1034-1038

    Christine Rivet, Carlos Robles-Medranda, Jérôme Dumortier, Catherine Le Gall, Thierry Ponchon, Alain Lachaux

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  • ·Diagnosis and management of GI stromal tumors by EUS-FNA: a survey of opinions and practices of endosonographers

    Pagina :1039

    Christina Y. Ha, Rajesh Shah, Jaijing Chen, Riad R. Azar, Steven A. Edmundowicz, Dayna S. Early

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  • ·The additional value of EUS-guided Tru-cut biopsy to EUS-guided FNA in patients with mediastinal lesions

    Pagina :1045-1051

    Lieke P.V. Berger, Robert C.H. Scheffer, Bas L.A.M. Weusten, Cees A. Seldenrijk, Peter C. de Bruin, Robin Timmer, Mark F.J. Stolk

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  • ·Evaluation and validation of computed virtual chromoendoscopy in early gastric cancer

    Pagina :1052-1058

    Ritsuo Mouri, Shigeto Yoshida, Shinji Tanaka, Shiro Oka, Masaharu Yoshihara, Kazuaki Chayama

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  • ·Efficacy and safety of the new WallFlex enteral stent in palliative treatment of malignant gastric outlet obstruction (DUOFLEX study): a prospective multicenter study

    Pagina :1059-1066

    Jeanin E. van Hooft, Madeleen J. Uitdehaag, Marco J. Bruno, Robin Timmer, Peter D. Siersema, Marcel G.W. Dijkgraaf, Paul Fockens

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  • ·Intraluminal implantation of radioactive stents for treatment of primary carcinomas of the peripancreatic-head region: a pilot study

    Pagina :1067-1073

    Yan Liu, Zheng Lu, Duo-wu Zou, Zhen-dong Jin, Feng Liu, Shu-de Li, Xian-bao Zhan, Wen-jun Zhang, Ren-pei Wu, Yin-zhen Yao, Li Yang, Zhaoshen Li

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  • ·Pancreatic endocrine tumor EUS-guided FNA DNA microsatellite loss and mortality

    Pagina :1074-1080

    Kenneth E. Fasanella, Kevin M. McGrath, Michael Sanders, Debra Brody, Robyn Domsic, Asif Khalid

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  • ·EUS for pancreatic endocrine tumors: do we need to know our pancreatic endocrine tumor’s DNA?

    Pagina :1081-1084

    John DeWitt

    
  • ·A comparison of direct endoscopic necrosectomy with transmural endoscopic drainage for the treatment of walled-off pancreatic necrosis

    Pagina :1085-1094

    Timothy B. Gardner, Prabhleen Chahal, Georgios I. Papachristou, Santhi Swaroop Vege, Bret T. Petersen, Christopher J. Gostout, Mark D. Topazian, Naoki Takahashi, Michael G. Sarr, Todd H. Baron

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  • ·Pancreatic cyst fluid DNA analysis in evaluating pancreatic cysts: a report of the PANDA study

    Pagina :1095-1102

    Asif Khalid, Maliha Zahid, Sydney D. Finkelstein, Julia K. LeBlanc, Neeraj Kaushik, Nuzhat Ahmad, William R. Brugge, Steven A. Edmundowicz, Robert H. Hawes, Kevin M. McGrath

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  • ·PANDA cyst-fluid analysis: eats, shoots and leaves?

    Pagina :1103-1105

    Michelle A. Anderson, Richard S. Kwon, James M. Scheiman

    
  • ·Comparison of carcinoembryonic antigen and molecular analysis in pancreatic cyst fluid

    Pagina :1106-1110

    Mandeep S. Sawhney, Shiva Devarajan, Paul O’Farrel, Marcelo S. Cury, Rabi Kundu, Charles M. Vollmer, Alphonso Brown, Ram Chuttani, Douglas K. Pleskow

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  • ·Effects of vardenafil, a phosphodiesterase type-5 inhibitor, on sphincter of Oddi motility in patients with suspected biliary sphincter of Oddi dysfunction

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    Young Koog Cheon, Young Deok Cho, Jong Ho Moon, Hee Hyuk Im, Yun Jung, Joon Seong Lee, Moon Sung Lee, Chan Sup Shim

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  • ·Levitra for sphincter of Oddi dysfunction? Are you kidding?

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    John Affronti

    
  • ·Are bowel purgatives and prokinetics useful for small-bowel capsule endoscopy? A prospective randomized controlled study

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    Aymer Postgate, Paris Tekkis, Neil Patterson, Aine Fitzpatrick, Paul Bassett, Chris Fraser

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  • ·Does glyceryl nitrate prevent post-ERCP pancreatitis? A prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled multicenter trial

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    Camilla Nøjgaard, Mads Hornum, Margarita Elkjaer, Claes Hjalmarsson, Laurent Heyries, Truls Hauge, Kåre Bakkevold, Per Kragh Andersen, Peter Matzen, European Post-ERCP Pancreatitis Preventing Study Group

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  • ·Pilot study for in vivo cellular imaging of the muscularis propria and ex vivo molecular imaging of myenteric neurons (with video)

    Pagina :1129-1134

    Kazuki Sumiyama, Hisao Tajiri, Fusao Kato, Taiko Imura, Kaori Ono, Keiichi Ikeda, Hiroo Imazu, Christopher J. Gostout

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  • ·Efficacy of a reverse-phase polymer as a submucosal injection solution for EMR: a comparative study (with video)

    Pagina :1135-1139

    Gloria Fernández-Esparrach, Sohail N. Shaikh, Arielle Cohen, Michele B. Ryan, Christopher C. Thompson

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  • ·Histologic influence of paclitaxel-eluting covered metallic stents in a canine biliary model

    Pagina :1140-1147

    Sang Soo Lee, Ji Hoon Shin, Ji Min Han, Chang Ho Cho, Myung-Hwan Kim, Sung-Koo Lee, Jin-Hyoung Kim, Kyung-Rae Kim, Kyoung Min Shin, Yong Hyun Won, Ho-Young Song

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  • ·Bimanual coordination in natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery: comparing the conventional dual-channel endoscope, the R-Scope, and a novel direct-drive system

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    Georg O. Spaun, Bin Zheng, Danny V. Martinec, Maria A. Cassera, Christy M. Dunst, Lee L. Swanström

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• CME Examination

  • ·Continuing Medical Education Exam: May 2009

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

    

• The Fellows' Corner

  • ·The risks of GI endoscopy

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    Michael J. Lipp

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• New Methods

  • ·Supplementation of endoscopic submucosal dissection with sentinel node biopsy performed by natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) (with video)

    Pagina :1152-1160

    Ronan A. Cahill, Mitsuhiro Asakuma, Silvana Perretta, Joel Leroy, Bernard Dallemagne, Jacques Marescaux, Dimitri Coumaros

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  • ·Transluminal endosurgery: novel use of endoscopic tacks for the closure of access sites in natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (with videos)

    Pagina :1161-1166

    Yasser M. Bhat, Sanjay Hegde, Marion Knaus, Jeffrey Solomon, Michael L. Kochman

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• At the Focal Point

  • ·High-grade common bile duct stricture caused by diffuse adenomyomatosis

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    Muriel Genevay, Jean-Louis Frossard, Olivier Huber, Laura Rubbia-Brandt, Jean-Marc Dumonceau

     
  • ·Magnified endoscopic images of duodenal follicular lymphoma and those of fat transportation disorders

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    Shouko Ono, Mototsugu Kato, Yuji Ono, Yuichi Shimizu, Masahiro Asaka

     
  • ·Wernicke’s encephalopathy caused by pyloric stenosis after endoscopic submucosal dissection

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

     
  • ·Unusual foreign bodies retrieved from the colon

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    Bradley C. Irwin, Fadi Antaki

     

• Brief Reports

  • ·Esophageal tuberculosis: an unusual cause of dysphagia

    Pagina :1173-1176

    Paula C. Peixoto, Paula S. Ministro, Ana D. Sadio, Eugénia M. Cancela, Ricardo N. Araújo, Joana L. Machado, António H. Castanheira, Américo T. Silva, Rui D. Nunes, Maria T. Carvalho, António F. Caldas

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  • ·Portal-vein embolization after sclerotherapy treatment of bleeding gastric varices: report of a case with long-term follow-up

    Pagina :1176-1178

    Kai-Lun Shih, Hsu-Heng Yen, Maw-Soan Soon

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  • ·Pancreaticoscopy with miniprobe-based confocal laser-scanning microscopy of an intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (with video)

    Pagina :1178-1180

    Alexander Meining, Veit Phillip, Jochen Gaa, Christian Prinz, Roland M. Schmid

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  • ·Facilitation of biliary-wire placement by a stone-extraction balloon

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    Yasser M. Bhat, Michael L. Kochman

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  • ·Novel management of complex hilar biliary strictures with the Spyglass Direct Visualization System (with video)

    Pagina :1182-1184

    Yasser M. Bhat, Michael L. Kochman

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  • ·A case of duodenal Entamoeba histolytica

    Pagina :1184-1186

    Linda A. Feagins, Vincent Chan, Stuart J. Spechler

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  • ·Unique endoscopy findings in collagenous colitis

    Pagina :1186-1188

    Gilberto Couto, Miguel Bispo, Pedro Barreiro, Lucília Monteiro, Leopoldo Matos

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  • ·Successful removal of cecal stones by using a colonoscope in an individual with repeated lithophagia

    Pagina :1188-1190

    Devin E. Shahverdian, Anu Mariyappa, David Wisinger, Jyotsna Ravi, Shiv Verma, Abdul Nadir

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  • ·Early gastric cancer associated with gastritis cystica polyposa in the unoperated stomach treated by endoscopic submucosal dissection

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    Chung-Hwa Park, Jae Myung Park, Chan Kwon Jung, Dae-Bum Kim, Seok Hui Kang, Sung Won Lee, Yu Kyung Cho, Sang Woo Kim, Myung-Gyu Choi, In-Sik Chung

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  • ·Left adrenal gland hemorrhage as a complication of EUS-FNA

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    Laura E. Haseganu, David L. Diehl

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  • ·Transrectal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery for umbilical hernia repair in a human cadaver (with video)

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    Monika E. Hagen, Oliver J. Wagner, Paul C. Swain, Ameet Patel, Ihsan Inan, Francois Pugin, Jean Fasel, Philippe Morel

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• Letters to the Editor

  • ·Treatment of Schatzki’s ring

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    Anil Minocha

    
  • ·Caustic ingestion in children: is endoscopy always indicated? A perspective from a Sierra Leone experience

    Pagina :1191-1192

    Sandro Contini, Alim Swarray-Deen, Carmelo Scarpignato

    
  • ·Response

    Pagina :1192-1193

    Pietro Betalli, Diego Falchetti, Stefano Giuliani, Alessandro Pane, Luigi Dall’Oglio, Gian Luigi de’Angelis, Mariano Caldore, Claudio Romano, PierGiorgio Gamba, Vincenzo Baldo

    
  • ·Clinical manifestations and management of buried bumper syndrome in patients with percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy

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    Jai-Jen Tsai, Hwai-Jeng Lin

    
  • ·Response

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    Tzong-Hsi Lee

    
  • ·Endoscopic band ligation for the treatment of gastric antral vascular ectasia

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    Kanwar Rupinder S. Gill, Massimo Raimondo, Michael B. Wallace

    
  • ·Snare coagulation for gastric antral vascular ectasia ablation

    Pagina :1195

    Vui Heng Chong

    
  • ·Flexible transgastric peritoneoscopy and liver biopsy

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    Brent W. Miedema, Klaus Thaler

    
  • ·Response

    Pagina :1196

    Sergey V. Kantsevoy, Kimberley Steele, Michael A. Schweitzer

    
  • ·How to avoid unnecessary laparotomies in Mirizzi syndrome?

    Pagina :1196-1197

    Juha M. Grönroos

    
  • ·The clinical significance of juxtapapillary duodenal diverticula identified at ERCP

    Pagina :1197

    Abdur R. Aftab, Fergal Donnellan, Faisal Zeb, Garry Courtney

    
  • ·Biliary microlithiasis

    Pagina :1197-1198

    Shyam Menon

    
  • ·Response

    Pagina :1198

    Qiang Cai

    
  • ·Capsule endoscopy for obscure GI bleeding

    Pagina :1198-1199

    Shyam Menon

    
  • ·Response

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    Pieter Hindryckx, Danny De Looze