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A Closer Look at the Global Management of Spina Bifida: The Implementation of Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy in the Treatment of Spina Bifida-Related Hydrocephalus in Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Spina bifida, specifically myelomeningocele, is a debilitating neural tube defect that affects patients and families throughout the world. Traditional management and treatment methods are described, followed by an explanation of why this is often ...
Burckart, Caryssa
core   +1 more source

Robot Autonomy for Surgery

open access: yes, 2017
Autonomous surgery involves having surgical tasks performed by a robot operating under its own will, with partial or no human involvement. There are several important advantages of automation in surgery, which include increasing precision of care due to ...
Das, Nikhil, Yip, Michael
core   +1 more source

Training in Endoscopy: Endoscopic Ultrasound [PDF]

open access: yesClinical Endoscopy, 2017
Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) has been recently established as an indispensable modality for the diagnosis and management of pancreatobiliary and gastrointestinal (GI) disorders. EUS proficiency requires both cognitive and technical abilities, including an understanding of the appropriate indications, the performance of appropriate evaluations before and
openaire   +3 more sources

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation for management of benign solid pancreatic tumors

open access: yesEndoscopy, 2018
Background Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) has been increasingly employed in experimental and clinical settings for the management of pancreatic lesions.
Jun-Ho Choi   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Accuracy of endoscopic ultrasound in esophageal cancer staging.

open access: yesJournal of Thoracic Disease, 2019
Since its advent in the 1980s endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) has played an important role in the diagnosis, staging, and therapeutic management of various gastrointestinal malignancies.
T. Krill   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Clinical Utility of Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) and Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS) in the Evaluation of Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy

open access: yesDiagnostics
In recent years, the combination of endobronchial ultrasound and endoscopic ultrasound has enabled “medical exploration” of the mediastinum for the study of mediastinal lymphadenopathies.
Dominique Béchade
doaj   +1 more source

Vascularisation Pattern of Chronic Pancreatitis Compared with Pancreatic Carcinoma: Results from Contrast-Enhanced Endoscopic Ultrasound

open access: yesInternational Journal of Inflammation, 2012
Discriminating between focal chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer is always a challenge in clinical medicine. Contrast-enhanced endoscopic ultrasound using Doppler techniques can uniquely reveal different vascularisation patterns in pancreatic ...
Michael Hocke, Christoph F. Dietrich
doaj   +1 more source

Anaplastic carcinoma of the pancreas diagnosed by endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration: a case report and review of the literature

open access: yesJournal of Medical Case Reports, 2018
Background Anaplastic carcinoma of the pancreas is a rare pancreatic neoplasm with a poor prognosis. It is classified as a variant of ductal adenocarcinoma, but the clinical features and treatment of it remain unknown because of its rarity and ...
Kohei Oka   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

COMPARISON OF ULTRASOUND WITH ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY AND SURGERY IN THE DETECTION OF SITE AND CAUSE BILE DUCTS DILATATION [PDF]

open access: yes
background and Objectives: Ultrasound (US) is the initial imaging test used in the evaluation of patients with biliary tract disease. Our retrospective study was designed to evaluate the capacity of ultrasound to determine the cause and site of bile ...
تبرائی, یاسر   +3 more
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Performance measures for ERCP and endoscopic ultrasound: a European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) Quality Improvement Initiative

open access: yesEndoscopy, 2018
The European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and United European Gastroenterology present a short list of key performance measures for endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP).
D. Domagk   +22 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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