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| This section contains a collection of articles on endoscopic ultrasound selected by Manoop S. Bhutani, MD. Dr. Bhutani, who is a member of Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News’ Medical Advisory Board, provides a commentary on each of the articles in this section. Dr. Bhutani is director of the Center for Endoscopic Ultrasound, co-director of the Center for Endoscopic Research, Training and Innovation, and professor of medicine in gastroenterology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. |
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A Shot of Alcohol With My Pancreatic Endoscopic Ultrasound, Please!
ISSUE: OCTOBER, 2007 A small multicenter, randomized, double-blind study presented at the 2007 Digestive Disease Week meeting makes the case for the potential of endoscopic ultrasound–guided ethanol lavage to ablate pancreatic cystic tumors.
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EUS Examined for Diagnosis of Relatively Uncommon Conditions
ISSUE: JUNE, 2007 Two studies presented at last year’s Digestive Disease Week meeting examined the yield of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) in the diagnosis of idiopathic acute recurrent pancreatitis and solid pseudopapillary tumor.
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EUS and EBUS Leading the Way for Diagnosing, Staging Lung Cancer
ISSUE: APRIL, 2007 It appears that the age of endoscopic and endobronchial ultrasound for the delicate task of diagnosis and staging of non–small-cell lung cancer has arrived, and that the older workhorse of conventional mediastinoscopy could be rapidly eclipsed by its newer, noninvasive and more accurate counterparts.
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TNF-alpha Gene Therapy Tested for Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
ISSUE: FEBRUARY, 2007 A biologic agent that directly targets tumors is showing promise for the treatment of locally advanced pancreatic cancer when combined with chemotherapy and radiation.
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Endobronchial Ultrasound Is Paving the Way for Complete Examination Of Mediastinal Lymph Node Metastases in Nonsmall-Cell Lung Cancer
ISSUE: DECEMBER, 2005 In preliminary results from a large prospective trial, Mayo Clinic investigators found that endobronchial ultrasound-fine needle aspiration (EBUS-FNA) combined with standard endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-FNA has a per-lymph node sensitivity of 93% for detecting metastases and a specificity of 100%.
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New DNA Test Identifies Type of Pancreatic Cyst
ISSUE: NOVEMBER, 2005 A new DNA test appears to accurately discriminate malignant from benign pancreatic cysts, according to a recent study.
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EUS Guides Delivery of Gene Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer
ISSUE: JANUARY, 2005 For the first time, physicians have succeeded in using endosonography for guiding the delivery of gene therapy targeted against unresectable pancreatic cancer.
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