Contents
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Focus on…
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In Upcoming Issues…
page 18A
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November 2009 Instructions for Authors
pages 28A-31A.e1
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Report of the Multisociety Task Force on GI Training
Members of the Task Force, Lawrence S. Friedman, Lawrence J. Brandt, Grace H. Elta, J. Gregory Fitz, Gregory J. Gores, Philip O. Katz, John F. Kuemmerle, Darrell S. Pardi, John J. Vargo, Michael H. Stolar
pages 823-827
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Simulator training improves practical skills in therapeutic GI endoscopy: results from a randomized, blinded, controlled study, 26 June 2009
Adam V. Haycock, Philippa Youd, Paul Bassett, Brian P. Saunders, Paris Tekkis, Siwan Thomas-Gibson
pages 835-845.e2
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A randomized comparison of electrocautery incision with Savary bougienage for relief of anastomotic gastroesophageal strictures, 02 July 2009
Marjan L. Hordijk, Jeanin E. van Hooft, Bettina E. Hansen, Paul Fockens, Ernst J. Kuipers
pages 849-855
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Long-term outcomes of endoscopic submucosal dissection for superficial esophageal squamous cell neoplasms, 06 July 2009
Satoshi Ono, Mitsuhiro Fujishiro, Keiko Niimi, Osamu Goto, Shinya Kodashima, Nobutake Yamamichi, Masao Omata
pages 860-866
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Comparative evaluation of nasoenteral feeding and jejunostomy feeding in acute corrosive injury: a retrospective analysis, 02 July 2009
Rakesh Kochhar, Kuchhangi Sureshchandra Poornachandra, Pankaj Puri, Usha Dutta, Saroj K. Sinha, Pradeepta K. Sethy, Jai D. Wig, Birinder Nagi, Kartar Singh
pages 874-880
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Therapies for bleeding gastric varices: is the fog starting to clear?
Dhiraj Tripathi
pages 888-891
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Trimodal imaging endoscopy may improve diagnostic accuracy of early gastric neoplasia: a feasibility study, 13 July 2009
Masayuki Kato, Mitsuru Kaise, Jin Yonezawa, Kenichi Goda, Hirobumi Toyoizumi, Noboru Yoshimura, Yukinaga Yoshida, Muneo Kawamura, Hisao Tajiri
pages 899-906
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Endoscopic large-balloon sphincteroplasty without preceding sphincterotomy for the removal of large bile duct stones: a preliminary study, 03 August 2009
Seok Jeong, Sung-Ho Ki, Don Haeng Lee, Jung Il Lee, Jin-Woo Lee, Kye Sook Kwon, Hyung Gil Kim, Yong Woon Shin, Young Soo Kim
pages 915-922
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Endocytoscopy for the detection of microstructural features in adult patients with celiac sprue: a prospective, blinded endocytoscopy-conventional histology correlation study, 29 June 2009
Heiko Pohl, Thomas Rösch, Barbara T. Tanczos, Birgit Rudolph, Karsten Schlüns, Daniel C. Baumgart
pages 933-941
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Hyperplastic polyposis syndrome: a pilot study for the differentiation of polyps by using high-resolution endoscopy, autofluorescence imaging, and narrow-band imaging, 13 July 2009
Karam S. Boparai, Frank J.C. van den Broek, Susanne van Eeden, Paul Fockens, Evelien Dekker
pages 947-955
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Simultaneous confocal laser endomicroscopy and chromoendoscopy with topical cresyl violet, 13 July 2009
Martin Goetz, Tanja Toermer, Michael Vieth, Kerry Dunbar, Arthur Hoffman, Peter R. Galle, Markus F. Neurath, Peter Delaney, Ralf Kiesslich
pages 959-968
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CME Activity: Continuing Medical Education Exam: November 2009
Raquel E. Davila, Jeffrey H. Lee, William Ross, Shou-Jiang Tang, G.S. Raju, George Triadafilopoulos
pages 976-976.e6
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Procedural sedation and obesity: waters left uncharted
John J. Vargo
pages 980-984
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Emerging technology: endoluminal treatment of obesity
Gregory A. Coté, Steven A. Edmundowicz
pages 991-999
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Teleteaching endoscopy: the feasibility of real-time, uncompressed video transmission by using advanced-network technologies, 30 July 2009
Tonya Kaltenbach, Manabu Muto, Roy Soetikno, Parvati Dev, Koji Okamura, Joonsoo Hahm, Shuji Shimizu
pages 1013-1017.e10
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Dysphagia associated with an elevated amylase level
Joseph M. McKinley, James S. Barthel, Tawfik N. Chami
pages 1023-1025
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Asymptomatic intussusception secondary to a giant appendiceal mucocele treated via a laparoscopic approach, 13 July 2009
I.-Ta Lu, Chung-Wang Ko, Chi-Sen Chang, Tai-Cheng Hou
pages 1026-1027
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Effective dilation of small-bowel strictures by double-balloon enteroscopy in patients with symptomatic Crohn's disease (with video), 29 July 2009
Edward J. Despott, Arun Gupta, David Burling, Eric Tripoli, Krysia Konieczko, Ailsa Hart, Chris Fraser
pages 1030-1036
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Endoscopic transpapillary gallbladder drainage with the SpyGlass cholangiopancreatoscopy system, 26 June 2009
Olga Barkay, Lois Bucksot, Stuart Sherman
pages 1039-1040
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Systemic air embolism after ERCP: a case report and review of the literature (with video), 06 July 2009
Christopher Romberg
pages 1043-1045
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Response
John DeWitt
pages 1046-1047
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A 2-rooms-per-endoscopist model enhances efficiency in GI endoscopy
Jaume Boix, Vicente Lorenzo-Zúñiga, Fidel Añaños, Vicente Moreno de Vega, Ramon Planas
pages 1047-1048
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Periampullary diverticulum: an indicator of easy or difficult cannulation?
Mitsunobu Matsushita, Kazushige Uchida, Akiyoshi Nishio, Kazuichi Okazaki
page 1049
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Extension of an excellent pilot study to a quantitative analysis of the pathophysiology of de Quervain disease associated with colonoscopy
Mitchell S. Cappell
page 1050
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