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Colorectal Research

Reports summarize colorectal research study results from Jikei University, Medical Department

Published in Medical Imaging Week, February 20th, 2010

In this recent article published in the World Journal of Gastroenterology, scientists in Tokyo, Japan conducted a study "To evaluate the usefulness of a balloon overtube to assist colorectal endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) using a gastroscope. The results of 45 consecutive patients who underwent colorectal ESD were analyzed in a single tertiary endoscopy center."

"In preoperative evaluation of access to the lesion, difficulties were experienced in the positioning and stabilization of a gastroscope in 15 patients who were thus assigned to the balloon-guided ESD group. A balloon overtube was placed with a gastroscope to provide an endoscopic channel to the...

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