This study was designed to assess the clinical value of magnifying endoscopy combined with EUS for estimating the invasion depth of colorectal tumors. We studied 168 colorectal adenomas and carcinomas that were sequentially examined by conventional endoscopy followed by magnifying endoscopy and EUS in the same session to evaluate invasion depth. Endoscopic images obtained by each technique were...

The aim of this study is to test the prognostic accuracy of the 2010-WHO classification for postsurgery survival in nonmetastatic gastric neuroendocrine tumor (NET) cases. Whether the 2010-WHO classification of NETs can predict relapse after surgical resection has not yet been established.We selected 175 nonmetastatic gastric NET patients at Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea between 1996 and 20...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Laterally spreading tumor (LST) is a colorectal pre-cancerous lesion. Previous studies have demonstrated distinct LST clinicopathological characteristics in different populations. This study evaluated clinicopathological characteristics of LST in a Chinese population. METHODS A total of 259 Chinese LST patients with 289 lesions were recruited for endoscopic and clinicopath...

An 85-year-old lady with chronic abdominal pain underwent a colonoscopy, which showed flat, spreading polypoidal lesions in the descending colon, and she was consequently referred for endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR). A repeat colonoscopy (Pentax EC 38-i10L) demonstrated multiple polypoidal lesions of varying sizes (3 mm–3cm), which were apparently interconnected, in the descending colon (●" ...

The purpose of this article is to review soft tissue and bony enlargements that typically occur in the oral and perioral region of children. In order to organize these lesions into a thorough but comprehensible format, the principles of differential diagnosis must be used. All oral enlargements are broadly classified as soft tissue or bony abnormalities. Determination of the specific lesion cat...

A 47-year-old woman underwent prophylactic subtotal colectomy with ileorectal anastomosis (IRA) for familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) 18 years ago. She underwent 5 transanal endoscopic microsurgeries for rectal remnant polyps, and was referred for the treatment of rectal remnant polyp recurrence. Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) was performed to remove multiple polypoid lesions that ci...

We report a case of a 40-year-old female who presented with dyspeptic symptoms for six months. Upper GI endoscopy revealed a submucosal nodule in gastric antrum. Using "jumbo biopsy unroofing technique" we were able to get adequate tissue for analysis. Histopathology revealed a type III gastric carcinoid. Patient was treated with laparoscopic distal subtotal gastrectomy with Roux-en-Y reconstru...