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Evidence Based Counseling for GI Malignancy Risk Reduction
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Evidence Based Counseling for GI Malignancy Risk...

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Gastrointestinal cancer accounts for nearly 20 percent of cancer deaths. Overwhelmingly, evidence shows that many of these malignancies are preventable. Current stragies to reduce mortality from cancer...

Is Your Patient At Risk of Having Lynch Syndrome
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Is Your Patient At Risk of Having Lynch Syndrome

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Lynch Syndrome, also called hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC), accounts for 2-3% of all colon cancer cases. Patients with Lynch Syndrome are not only at increased risk for devloping colon...

Upper and Lower GI Bleeding
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Upper and Lower GI Bleeding

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Digestive disorders account for more than 35 million physician office visits per year and also serve as the primary reason for more than 20 million surgical procedures each year. GI bleeding refers to...

Intestinal Metaplasia of the Stomach-A Review
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Intestinal Metaplasia of the Stomach-A Review

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Carcinoma of the stomach is still the second most common cause of cacner deaths worldwide, although the incidence and mortality have fallen dramtically over the last 50 years in many regions. The intestinal...

Top 10 GI POEM's
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Top 10 GI POEM's

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Keeping up with the rapid advancement of medical science is very difficult, unless filters are used by clinicians to detect only the valid and relevant information that is useful to their practice. Using...

Optmizing Colorectal Cancer Screening and Surveillance
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Optmizing Colorectal Cancer Screening and Surveillance

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Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in California and the second deadliest cancer in men and women in 2005. Screening for colonic adenomas appears to significantly reduce the incidence...

Complying with Regulatory Oversight In Outpatient Endoscopy
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Complying with Regulatory Oversight In Outpatient...

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In recent years, the provision of outpatient surgical services, including endoscopy, has become subject to numerous new laws and regulations. the provision of patient care in the office setting had previously...

Assessing USAF Primary Care Colonoscopy Training and Outcomes Using Quality Indicators
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Assessing USAF Primary Care Colonoscopy Training...

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There is increasing consensus that credentialing and privileging for colonoscopy should be based on performance in certain quality indicators. Early data indicate that primary care physicians can meet...

Argon Plasma Coagulation
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Argon Plasma Coagulation

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This presentation provides an introductory discussion on the rapidly developing technology of Argon Plasma Coagulation (APC) in gastrointestinal The presenter will review the technology behind this modality....

Anti-Platelets, Anti-Coagulants, and Endoscopy
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Anti-Platelets, Anti-Coagulants, and Endoscopy

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This evidence based presentation reviews the approach to elective endoscopy for patients on single and dual anti-platelet agents, anti-coagulants and the new oral anti-coagulants. This was presented...

Esophageal Dilation Lecture
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Esophageal Dilation Lecture

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Esophageal Dilation Many primary care physicians who are already skilled at upper endoscopy can learn to safely dilate simple reflux strictures. There has been a growing interest in this topic among...

Precursors Lesions of Pancreatic Cancer: A Current Appraisal on Diagnosis
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Precursors Lesions of Pancreatic Cancer: A Current...

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Abstract: The dramatic increase in the number of patients diagnosed with incidental pancreatic cysts through imaging methods provides a unique opportunity to detect and treat these precursor lesions of...

The Pancreatic Metastasis of Clear Renal Cell Carcinoma Confirmed by EUS-FNA
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The Pancreatic Metastasis of Clear Renal Cell...

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Asymptomatic man, 58 y-old. Six years ago was treated by clear renal cell cancer. Control CT showed the hypervascularized solid nodule (2.1 x 1.9 cm) in the head of the pancreas.

Conservative management of cholestasis with and without fever in acute biliary pancreatitis.
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Conservative management of cholestasis with and...

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The presence of cholestasis in both mild and severe forms of acute biliary pancreatitis (ABP) does not justify, of itself, early endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (ERC) or endoscopic sphincterotomy...

The Role of Endoscopic Ultrasound in Chronic Pancreatitis
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The Role of Endoscopic Ultrasound in Chronic...

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The chronic pancreatitis is an inflammatory disease with progressive and, in their view, irreversible morphological changes! Endoscopic ultrasound is valuable in the diagnosis in staging the disease....

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