OAK BROOK, Ill. – February 18, 2008 – A study from the Jichi Medical University in Japan shows that optimal band imaging used with an endoscope provided images that clearly identified depressed-type ...

Combining white light endoscopy with magnifying narrow-band imaging shows promise for achieving accurate diagnosis of early gastric cancer, according to a report by Internal Medicine News. Presented ...

Background and Aims: The diagnostic use of magnification endoscopy with narrow-band imaging (ME-NBI) to assess histopathologically undifferentiated-type early gastric cancers (UD-type EGCs) is not ...

Enlarged blood vessels around your esophagus are called varices. If they rupture, it may be fatal. Variceal banding is a procedure that prevents and treats these ruptures. Advanced liver conditions, ...

Patients with Barrett's esophagus require surveillance to enable early detection of neoplastic lesions. Currently, such surveillance relies on magnifying ...

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Patients on GLP-1 receptor agonists had a low risk of food retention when an esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) was combined with a colonoscopy, a small retrospective study found. Among more than 200 ...

An esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) is a procedure that helps diagnose and treat conditions of the upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract. During the EGD procedure, a doctor passes an endoscope, a camera ...

Narrow-band imaging is a unique sequential-illumination optical-filter system that can be used in combination with a standard lighting system, but which uses a narrower wavelength range than ...