BACKGROUND/AIMS To explore the reasons why patients with gastric cancer continue to present with advanced disease despite open access gastroscopy. PATIENTS All patients diagnosed with gastric cancer between 1 August 1989 and 31 July 1994. METHODS A retrospective study of the presentation of gastric cancer in South Tees; patients were diagnosed at open access gastroscopy or referred through ...

BACKGROUND Advances in virtual endoscopy simulators have paralleled an interest in medical simulation for gastrointestinal endoscopy training. OBJECTIVE The primary objective was to determine whether the virtual endoscopy simulator training could improve the performance of novices. DESIGN A systematic review. SETTING Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that compared virtual endoscopy simu...

INTRODUCTION The HpOne test is a new five-minute rapid urease test developed for the rapid detection of Helicobacter pylori infection during gastroscopy. However, evidence in the literature supporting its use clinically is scarce. The most commonly used rapid urease test remains the Campylobacter-like organism (CLO) test, which generates accurate readings only after 24 hours. The aim of this st...

PURPOSE Before laparoscopic gastrectomy for gastric cancer can be planned, it is very important to know the precise location of the tumor. The aim of this study was to evaluate 3 methods of predicting the exact location of the tumor: preoperative gastrofibroscopy (GFS), preoperative computed tomography gastroscopy (CT), and intraoperative gastroscopy-guided laparoscopy (Lap). METHODS In this ...

Breast cancer metastasis to the stomach is relatively rare. Unlike infiltrating ductal carcinoma, invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) has a high tendency to metastasize to the stomach. The present study reports a case of a 53-year-old female who had undergone a modified radical mastectomy of the left breast for ILC eight years previously and presented at the clinic seeking treatment for epigastric...

Gastric cancer has a high mortality rate worldwide, but it can be prevented with early detection through regular gastroscopy. Herein, we propose deep learning-based computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) system applying data augmentation to help doctors classify gastroscopy images as normal or abnormal. To improve the performance of learning, large amount training are required. However, collection med...

Obesity is the civilizational disease of our era, and often leads to comorbidity, hypertension, diabetes obstructive sleep apnea. Contemporary non-surgical treatment for obesity frequently inefficient, resulting in increased prominence surgical procedures, specifically, laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG). In case report, we present a which LSG was not feasible reference traditional technique...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the gastric emptying of an oral supplement containing carbohydrate plus whey protein drunk before sedation for gastroscopy. METHODS This is a randomized double-blind trial including adult patients (ages 18-65) with a chief complaint of epigastric burning and who were candidates to elective gastroscopy. After overnight fast subjects were randomized to drink 200 mL of a...

Five patients with smooth muscle tumours of the stomach are presented. In 3 cases, histological identification of the lesion was made pre-operatively on biopsy material obtained under direct vision at gastroscopy.

Gastroscopy was performed in 164 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and 85 with osteoarthritis (OA) to assess the effects of anti-inflammatory agents on the stomach. The main criterion for entry into the trial was the absence of active gastric lesions on pretreatment endoscopy. The patients were divided into groups to receive one of 12 anti-inflammatory drugs or combinations of these. Gast...