Traditional flexible endoscopy has been limited to the confines of the gastrointestinal lumen; however, recent developments involving transluminal access to intra-abdominal structures hold the ...

What is a endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)? An endoscopy is a test to look inside your body. Your doctor uses a long flexible tube called an endoscope. It has a tiny camera and light on the end. The ...

The advent of total parenteral nutrition in the late 1960s meant that no situation remained in which a patient could not be fed. Unfortunately, total parenteral nutrition was complicated by serious ...

Abstract: Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) has attracted continuous attention in recent decades, but its confined workspace restricts the dexterity and manipulability of ...

3 Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Objective While it is recommended that patients presenting with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (AUGIB) should ...

Objectives Interventional endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) procedures are gaining popularity and the most commonly performed procedures include EUS-guided drainage of pancreatic pseudocyst, EUS-guided ...

This is the official code for https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11535. git clone https://github.com/HKU-MedAI/EndoGS.git conda env create --file environment.yml conda ...

We introduce an endoscopic SLAM dataset which consists of both ex-vivo and synthetically generated data. The ex-vivo part of the dataset includes standard as well as capsule endoscopy recordings. The ...

Correspondence to Dr Christopher Paul Kellner, Department of Neurosurgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, USA; christopher.kellner{at}mountsinai.org Background ...

Aim: Anal stenosis is an uncommon complication of anorectal surgery, mostly resulting from circumferential hemorrhoidectomy or resection of the skin tag in surgical management of chronic anal fissure.

Esophageal varices are swollen veins in the esophagus that can burst and cause heavy bleeding. If esophageal varices burst, it is a medical emergency and can lead to massive blood loss. Immediate ...