Yield of double-balloon enteroscopy in the diagnosis and treatment of small bowel strictures.

Background: Small bowel strictures are common in gastroenterology practice. We report diagnostic and therapeutic yield of double-balloon enteroscopy for small bowel strictures.

Methods: Retrospective study of 71 consecutive patients who were found to have small bowel stricture at the time of double-balloon enteroscopy.

Management of colorectal T1 carcinoma treated by endoscopic resection from the Western perspective.

Detection of early colorectal cancer is expected to rise in light of national colorectal cancer screening programs. This The present review article delineates current endoscopic risk assessments, differentiating invasive from non-invasive neoplasia, for high likelihood of lymph node metastasis in early colorectal cancer, also termed high-risk early colorectal cancer, and endoscopic and surgical resection methods from a Western hemisphere perspective.