Volume 28, No 1 (2015)

Editorial (by invitation only)

Long-term survival after endoscopic resection for early gastric cancer in the remnant stomach: comparison with radical surgery

Jacobo Ortiz, Krish Ragunath

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Invited Reviews

Impact of high-resolution manometry on achalasia diagnosis and treatment

Michaela MÃ¼ller

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Advances in the treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection in children

Nicolas Kalach, Patrick Bontems, Samy Cadranel

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Iron deficiency in gastrointestinal oncology

Kristof Verraes, Hans Prenen

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Trends in the surgical management of diverticulitis

Nicole Wieghard, Cristina B. Geltzeiler, Vassiliki L. Tsikitis

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Cardiovascular dysfunction in patients with liver cirrhosis

Giuseppe Fede, Graziella Privitera, Tania Tomaselli, Luisa Spadaro, Francesco Purrello

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Reviews

Magnification endoscopy in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a review of the intrapapillary capillary loop classification

Haruhiro Inoue, Makoto Kaga, Haruo Ikeda, Chiaki Sato, Hiroki Sato, Hitomi Minami, Esperanza Grace Santi, Bu'Hussain Hayee, Nikolas Eleftheriadis

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Mesenteric inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors

Poras Chaudhary

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Interferon-based combination treatment for chronic hepatitis C in the era of direct acting antivirals

Alexandra Alexopoulou, Peter Karayiannis

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Original Articles

Long-term survival after endoscopic resection for early gastric cancer in the remnant stomach: comparison with radical surgery

Takeshi Yamashina, Noriya Uedo, Katsuyuki Dainaka, Kenji Aoi, Noriko Matsuura, Takashi Ito, Mototsugu Fujii, Takashi Kanesaka, Sachiko Yamamoto, Tomofumi Akasaka, Noboru Hanaoka, Yoji Takeuchi, Koji Higashino, Ryu Ishihara, Kentaro Kishi, Yoshiyuki Fujiwara, Hiroyasu Iishi

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Effective optical identification of type "0-IIb" early gastric cancer with narrow band imaging magnification endoscopy, successfully treated by endoscopic submucosal dissection

Nikolas Eleftheriadis, Haruhiro Inoue, Haruo Ikeda, Manabu Onimaru, Akira Yoshida, Roberta Maselli, Grace Santi, Shigeharu Hamatani, Shin-ei Kudo

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Pediatric inflammatory bowel disease in Greece: 30-years experience of a single center

Konstantina Dimakou, Ioanna Pachoula, Ioanna Panayotou, Kalliopi Stefanaki, Irini Orfanou, Evagelia Lagona, Eleftheria Roma-Giannikou, Georgios Chouliaras

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Healthy control subjects are poorly defined in case-control studies of irritable bowel syndrome

Shireen Ghorbani, Amir Nejad, David Law, Kathleen S. Chua, Meridythe M. Amichai, Mark Pimentel

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Diagnostic miss rate for colorectal cancer: an audit

Mary Than, Jolene Witherspoon, Javed Shami, Prachi Patil, Avanish Saklani

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Use of small bowel capsule endoscopy in patients with chronic kidney disease: experience from a University Referral Center

Emily Docherty, Anastasios Koulaouzidis, Sarah Douglas, John N. Plevris

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Clinicopathological and treatment analysis of 13 extragastrointestinal stromal tumors of mesentery and retroperitoneum

Nida Iqbal, Atul Sharma, Naveed Iqbal

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The impact of newer nucleos(t)ide analogues on patients with hepatitis B decompensated cirrhosis

Evagelos Cholongitas, George V. Papatheodoridis, John Goulis, John Vlachogiannakos, Stylianos Karatapanis, John Ketikoglou, Themistoklis Vasiliadis, George Kontos, Anastasios Karlaftis, Evangelos Akriviadis

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Value of 3 Tesla diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging for assessing liver fibrosis

Lavrentios Papalavrentios, Emmanouil Sinakos, Danai Chourmouzi, Prodromos Hytiroglou, Konstantinos Drevelegas, Manos Constantinides, Antonios Drevelegas, Jayant Talwalkar, Evangelos Akriviadis

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Quality of life and factors predictive of burden among primary caregivers of chronic liver disease patients

Douglas L. Nguyen, Daniel Chao, Grace Ma, Timothy Morgan

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Hepatic vein obstruction is the most common type of hepatic venous outflow obstruction regardless of socioeconomic status

Akash Shukla, Hardik Parikh, Tejas Modi, Philip Abraham, Swati Kamble, Dipendu Majumder, Shobna Bhatia

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Prospective analysis of indications and early complications of emergency temporary loop ileostomies for perforation peritonitis

Poras Chaudhary, Ishaq Nabi, Gyan Ranjan, Alok Kumar Tiwari, Sanjay Kumar, Arun Kapur, Mohinder P. Arora

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Technical Notes

Cold snare polypectomy with pull technique of flat colonic polyps up to 12 mm: a porcine model

George Tribonias, Yoriaki Komeda, Evangelos Voudoukis, Stefanos Bassioukas, Nikolaos Viazis, Margarita-Eleni Manola, Elpida Giannikaki, Apostolos Papalois, Konstantina Paraskeva, Dimitrios Karamanolis, Gregorios A. Paspatis

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Images of the Month

Circumferential esophageal leiomyoma

Filippo Antonini, Samuele De Minicis, Giampiero Macarri

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Unusual endoscopic presentation of eosinophilic gastroenteropathy

Girish Hiremath, Carla M. Davis, John Hicks, Anthony OlivÃ©

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A rare case of colonic pseudolipomatosis

Maria JoÃ£o MagalhÃ£es, AndrÃ© Coelho, Marta Salgado, Isabel Pedroto

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Grey Turner's sign in acute necrotizing pancreatitis

Puneet Chhabra, Surinder S. Rana, Vishal Sharma, Ravi Sharma, Deepak K. Bhasin

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Case Reports

Urticaria due to polyethylene glycol-3350 and electrolytes for oral solution in a patient with jejunal nodular lymphoid hyperplasia

Hongfeng Zhang, Winoah A. Henry, Lea Ann Chen, Mouen A. Khashab

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A long and distant journey: a case of rectal cancer with metastasis to the orbit

Michelle Pearlman, Wilson T. Kwong

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Letter to the Editor

Helicobacter pylori infection and gastroesophageal reflux disease - Barrett's esophagus sequence "dilemma"

Jannis Kountouras, Christos Zavos, Stergios A. Polyzos, Panagiotis Katsinelos

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Desmoplastic small-round-cell rectal tumor

Rachel M. Gomes, Rajiv Kumar, Ashwin Desouza, Avanish Saklani

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Endoscopic variceal ligation in children with extrahepatic portal vein thrombosis: long-term follow up of 2 cases

Olga Giouleme, Ioannis Xinias, Antigoni Mavroudi, Nikolaos Grammatikos

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Unexpected drainage of pancreatic pseudocyst through the common bile duct

Chrysoula Malli, Athanasios D. Sioulas, George D. Dimitriadis, Konstantinos Triantafyllou

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Table of contents

Editorial (by invitation only)

Invited Reviews

Reviews

Original Articles

Technical Notes

Images of the Month

Case Reports

Letter to the Editor