Results of medium seventeen years' follow-up after laparoscopic choledochotomy for ductal stones [PDF]
, 2016 INTRODUCTION: In a previously published article the authors reported the long-term follow-up results in 138 consecutive patients with gallstones and common bile duct (CBD) stones who underwent laparoscopic transverse choledochotomy (TC) with T-tube ...
Balla, Andrea +7 more
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Cervical esophagotomy for removal of an ingested clam shell: a very uncommon foreign body ingestion [PDF]
, 2017 OBJECTIVE: To report the removal of an ingested clam shell that was firmly impacted in the esophagus. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION: A 77-year-old man presented at our hospital with acute dysphagia after eating a seafood risotto.
Balducci, Genoveffa +4 more
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Effective optical identification of type "0-IIb" early gastric cancer with narrow band imaging magnification endoscopy, successfully treated by endoscopic submucosal dissection [PDF]
, 2015 Background Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is currently considered the minimal invasive endoscopic treatment for early gastric cancer.
Eleftheriadis, N +8 more
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Design of wireless swallowable capsule with minimum power consumption and high resolution images [PDF]
, 2015 Medical technology has undergone major breakthroughs in recent years, especially in the area of the examination tools for diagnostic purposes. The traditional examination method for the diagnosis of gastrointestinal diseases is gastroscopy with the use ...
Intzes, I, Meng, H, Vassios, V
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Sedation in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy [PDF]
Sedation helps patients to tolerate uncomfortable gastrointestinal endoscopy procedures by relieving anxiety and pain. It also decreases a patient’s risk of physical injury during gastrointestinal endoscopy procedures while providing the endoscopist with
Axel, Benvenuto +2 more
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) of the Treitz’s angle– a very rare cause of high bowel obstruction [PDF]
, 2016 Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) are somewhat rare gastrointestinal tumors - approximately 1% to 3% incidence, but they are the most common mesenchymal neoplasms of the gastrointestinal tract.
Georgescu, Lota Corina +3 more
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Metastatic tumors to the stomach: clinical and endoscopic features. [PDF]
, 2006 AIM: To evaluate the clinical and endoscopic patterns in a large series of patients with metastatic tumors in the stomach. METHODS: A total of 64 patients with gastric metastases from solid malignant tumors were retrospectively examined between 1990 and ...
DE PALMA, GIOVANNI DOMENICO +8 more
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Endoscopic screening for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma [PDF]
, 2013 Esophageal cancer (EC) is the eighth common cancer and the sixth most common cause of death from cancer worldwide. Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) remains the most common type of EC in the developing world and an important health problem in ...
Amiriani, T. +6 more
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Pseudo-outbreak of Mycobacterium gordonae in a teaching hospital: importance of strictly following decontamination procedures and emerging issues concerning sterilization [PDF]
, 2016 Aim of this study was to investigate a pseudo-outbreak of Mycobacterium gordonae analyzing isolates detected from clinical and environmental samples.
Alessia Cottarelli +10 more
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Synchronous gastric and duodenal metastases from head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: a unique presentation of upper gastrointestinal bleeding. [PDF]
, 2018 Metastatic disease to the stomach or duodenum is an infrequent diagnosis, and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is one of the least common primary malignancies that lead to gastric or duodenal metastases.
Daitch, Zachary +4 more
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