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Background/Aims: Endoscopic channels are difficult to clean and can cause infection transmission. We examined the effectiveness of a newly developed channel-cleaning ball brush (BB), which is sucked into the endoscopic...
Background/Aims: Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS)-guided tissue acquisition requires a long learning curve. We aimed to compare the skill maturation curves between fine needle aspiration (FNA) and biopsy (FNB) for tissue acquisition.
Methods:...
BACKGROUND: This study was conducted in order to survey the current state of cleaning, disinfection, rinsing, drying, and storage of gastrointestinal endoscopes.
METHODS: Eighty hospitals were selected through convenient sampling. Self-reported...
Iwamuro M, Okuda M, Yumoto E, Suzuki S, Shirakawa , Takata K, Yoshino T, Okada H, Yamamoto K
KMID: 2135081
Gut Liver.
2013 Mar;7(2):258-261.
The representative endoscopic features of primary intestinal follicular lymphoma are well known as small whitish polypoid nodules, but a magnified view has only been described in a few case reports....