Robert A Ganz
Robert A Ganz
The diagnosis and treatment of esophageal diseases have undergone major changes over the last several years, and these are expected to continue. This article highlights these changes.
C Daniel Smith
C Daniel Smith
This article covers some new areas of development in esophageal surgery. Specific topics include reviews of long-term outcomes after laparoscopic antireflux surgery, the use of surgically placed implantable device for LES augmentation (Linx...
Timothy A Woodward,Laith H Jamil,Michael B Wallace
Timothy A Woodward
As limited as are the studies regarding peritoneal Natural Orifice Trans-Luminal Endoscopic Surgery, mediastinal transluminal experiments are certainly in their infancy. The authors evaluate the parallel development of minimally invasive th...
Drew B Schembre
Drew B Schembre
The use of self-expanding metal esophageal stents has evolved dramatically over the last 20 years. Stents themselves have morphed from simple open-mesh wire devices to a variety of partially and fully covered metal and plastic protheses des...
Melina C Vassiliou,Daniel von Renteln,Richard I Rothstein
Melina C Vassiliou
Heartburn is the most common symptom associated with gastroesophageal reflux disease, and life-long proton pump inhibitor therapy is often required to control symptoms. Antireflux surgery is an alternative, but there may be significant side...
Kevin D Halsey,Bruce D Greenwald
Kevin D Halsey
Accumulating evidence highlights the promising results seen with endoscopic spray cryotherapy in the treatment of dysplasia associated with Barrett esophagus and esophageal carcinoma. Published studies show that the success of spray cryothe...
Endoscopic therapy using radiofrequency ablation for esophageal dysplasia and carcinoma in Barrett's esophagus [0.03%]
Barrett食管内镜下采用射频消融治疗食管异型增生和癌变
Frederike G I van Vilsteren,Jacques J G H M Bergman
Frederike G I van Vilsteren
Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a novel and promising treatment modality for treatment of Barrett's esophagus (BE) with high-grade dysplasia or early carcinoma. RFA can be used as a single-modality therapy for flat-type mucosa or as a supp...
Seth A Gross,Herbert C Wolfsen
Seth A Gross
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a drug and device therapy using photosensitizer drugs activated by laser light for mucosal ablation. Porfimer sodium PDT has been used extensively with proven long-term efficacy and durability for the ablation ...
Endoscopic mucosal resection and endoscopic submucosal dissection for esophageal dysplasia and carcinoma [0.03%]
内镜下黏膜切除和内镜下黏膜剥离术治疗食管不典型增生及癌病灶
Haruhiro Inoue,Hitomi Minami,Makoto Kaga et al.
Haruhiro Inoue et al.
Advanced cancer in the esophagus is a serious and fatal disease that invades locally to deeper layers of the esophageal wall with significant risk of nodal metastasis and invasion of adjacent organs. One reliable method of avoiding this is ...
Muhammad W Shahid,Michael B Wallace
Muhammad W Shahid
Numerous endoscopic imaging modalities have been developed and introduced into clinical practice to enhance diagnostic capabilities. In the past, detection of dysplasia and carcinoma of the esophagus has been dependent on biopsies taken dur...