Rosamaira Bozzi, MD, Aviel Roy-Shapira, MD, Fabio Cattaneo, PhD, Domenico Cattaneo, MD. U.O.C. di Chirurgia ed Endoscopia Digestiva “Azienda dei Colli”. Objective: A new method for trans-oral long submucsal myotomy – (POEM™) has been shown to be a relatively safe and effective method to treat achalasia. However, the procedure often results in severe gastroesophageal reflux(GERD). […]
Abdorrasoul Malekpour, Dr, Saeideh Zahedi, Bs, Hamed Hasani, Javad Kojuri, MD. Quality improvement in clinical Education Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Common areas of medical uses include: bronchoscopy, colonoscopy and viewing of the upper gastroenterological systems. Endoscopies are commonly used for the diagnosis of cancer. Recent video-endoscopes with high costs can only […]
Mingtian Wei, MD, Hang Yi, MD, Ziqiang Wang, MD, Zongguang Zhou, MD. Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University. Background: Achalasia is a rare esophageal motility disorder with a low incidence of 1/100 000 per year in general people. Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM), reported in the management of achalasia patients in 2010, has […]
Young-Joon Lee, Ji-Ho Park, Sang-Ho Jeong, Chang Yoon Ha, Ju-Yeon Kim, Taejin Park, Chi-Young Jeong, Young-tae Ju, Eun-Jung Jung, Soon-Chan Hong, Sang-Kyung Choi, Woo-Song Ha. Gyeongsang National University. Backgrouds: Intraoperative tumor localization is prerequisite for deciding the proper extent of gastric resection during laparoscopic gastric local resection of early mucosal cancer and submucosal tumor. In […]
Yuji Nishizawa, PhD, Toshikazu Kawai, PhD, Tatsuo Nakamura, PhD, Masao Fujiwara, PhD, Keiichi Okano, PhD, Yasuyuki Suzuki, PhD. Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University. [Background] Among the recent advances in endoscopic surgery, Solo-Surgery can now be performed with high accuracy because of improvements in surgical techniques. However, to further generalize this surgical […]