AIM Due to surgery s high mortality and morbidity, local therapeutic techniques are required for Barrett s high-grade dysplasia (BHGD) and early gastric cancer (EGC). Various techniques are available for endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) in the GI tract. The " suck and cut technique, which uses a transparent cap or modified multiband variceal ligator, is usually the most practiced method. A mu...

Cystic lymphangioma of the colon (CLC) is a rare benign lesion that is usually asymptomatic and found incidentally during colonoscopy. Limitations in the conventional noninvasive diagnostic techniques have led to surgical resection of these lesions for diagnostic confirmation. Classic endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) findings of colonic cystic lymphangioma are submucosal anechoic cystic spaces with ...

AbsractGastritis cystic polyposa is a rare and peculiar polypoid lesion arising at a gastroenterostomysite, and almost always on the gastric side. It is characterized by elongationof the gastric foveolae along with hyperplasia and cystic dilatation of the gastricglands extending into the submucosal layer. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy in a47-year-old woman without any history of gastric operation ...

background: transvaginal ultrasound is one of the most common means to examine endometrial cavity lesions although its negative results are more valuable. saline sonohysterography can reduce the number of false negative rates of endometrial lesions diagnoses in tamoxifen consumers. the objective of this study was to determine the diagnostic values of saline infusion sonohysterography (sis) and ...

AIM To investigate the indication, feasibility, safety, and clinical utility of endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) in the management of various gastrointestinal pathologies. METHODS The medical records of 60 consecutive patients (34 female, 26 male) who underwent ESD at the gastroenterology department of Kocaeli University from 2006-2010 were examined. Patients selected for ESD had premal...

Cold snare polypectomy (CSP) should be performed for benign lesions, though an accurate diagnosis is sometimes difficult with only white light observation. Irregular findings by narrow-band imaging (NBI) are useful for differentiating malignant lesions from benign lesions, and cases with this finding are not expected for CSP. We present a diminutive T1 cancer resected by CSP as a reflection cas...

Castleman's disease is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder with unknown underlying cause. Three histologic variants (hyaline-vascular, plasma cell and mixed) as well as 2 clinical groups (localized and multicentic) have been described. Most patients with the hyaline-vascular variant are asymptomatic other than localized pressure from the mass. Hyaline-vascular Castleman's disease was commonly f...

Biopsy for the submucosal tumor has not been established and it is extremely rare that tumor tissues are obtained by usual biopsy forceps except in cases showing ulceration. Moreover, tumor tissues from the ulcerated site often showed degeneration or necrosis, and are difficult for pathohistological diagnosis. In addition, the biopsies are often associated with bleeding. We have developed a new...

INTRODUCTION Esophageal fibrovascular polyps are rare, benign, intraluminal, submucosal tumor-like lesions, characterized by pedunculated masses which can demonstrate enormous growth. The most frequent symptoms are dysphagia, vomiting and weight loss. Fibrovascular polyps with long stalks can regurgitate into the airways and cause asphyxia. Esophageal inflammatory pseudotumor is extremely rare ...