Bleeding from duodenal varices is a rare complication of portal hypertension. Most patients with duodenal varices have extrahepatic portal hypertension [1]. Due to the limited number of cases, different treatment modalities for duodenal varices have not been compared in randomized controlled trials and most of our current knowledge is obtained from case reports and small case series. So far, en...

A 66-year-old male was referred for the treatment of a polyp extending into a diverticulum. Endoscopic band ligation (EBL) was used to resolve the diverticulum. The banded diverticulum resolved and scar formation was observed 2 months after EBL. Residual small polypoid lesions were resected using endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR), and no complications occurred after treatment.

Sclerotherapy and endoscopic esophageal variceal ligation (EVL) are commonly used to treat and prevent variceal bleeding. As of today, there has been no report on an unexpected incarceration of a varix hooked on with the bands from the endoscopic EVL device. We recently experienced this emergency while using the 7-band ring endoscopic EVL device (Boston Scientific Corp., Boston, MA) for prophyl...

â  background treatment of hemorrhoid disease is one of the most challenging fields in general surgery in which different methods are used to treat this condition. in this study, we compared the manometric and clinical results of three treatment methods for hemorrhoids. me t hod s a total of 150 patients with symptomatic grades ii or iii internal hemorrhoids were randomly assigned to three grou...