Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Volume 67, Issue 3 , Pages 556-560 , March 2008

Endoloop ligation of large pedunculated submucosal tumors (with videos)

Received 29 November 2006 ,Accepted 29 October 2007.

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 Presented at United European Gastroenterology Week, October 21-25, 2006, Berlin, Germany (video session).

PII: S0016-5107(07)02999-9

doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2007.10.049

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Volume 67, Issue 3 , Pages 556-560 , March 2008

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