Colonic lipomas are a rare type of gastrointestinal benign tumor. Those that are <2 cm are generally asymptomatic and do not require any treatment. However, those that are >2 cm may be symptomatic, resulting in abdominal pain, changes in bowel habits, intestinal obstruction and rectal bleeding. A 39-year-old male patient presented with a mass prolapse through the anal canal, which was causing a...

We describe our experience with a new over-the-scope clip (OTSC) system (Padlock Clip?) in the treatment of 14 patients. Eight of the 14 patients were treated for closure of gastrointestinal fistulas (n?=?4), iatrogenic gastrointestinal perforations (n?=?2), or hemostasis of post-polypectomy bleeding (n?=?2). The site of clipping was the lower gastrointestinal tract in five patients and the upp...

BACKGROUND Double balloon enteroscopy is a new technique that enables deep intubation of the endoscope into the small bowel lumen. Through a channel in the endoscope, invasive procedures such as biopsy, polypectomy and hemostasis can be performed, avoiding the need for surgery. OBJECTIVES To prospectively analyze our results of the first 124 DBEs performed since February 2007. METHODS The s...

retrieve proximally migrated pancreatic stents [1,2]. The lasso technique involves inserting a guide wire through the lumen of the migrated stent followed by insertion of a partially opened polypectomy snare over the wire to grasp the stent [3]. We present the case of a 72-year-old woman with recurrent acute biliary pancreatitis, who underwent endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERC...

The endoscopic resection of rectal neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) results in good long-term outcomes [1]. Many techniques for the endoscopic resection of rectal NETs have been described, including polypectomy, endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR), and recently EMR with band ligation [2], endoscopic submucosal dissection [3], and even transanal endoscopic microsurgery [4]. Underwater endoscopic rese...