Abdominal ultrasound and its significant role in colon cancer. The advantage of its dynamic nature: using respiratory movements to assess neoplasia relations to adjacent organs.

A 58-year-old, otherwise healthy male presented to the Emergency Room due to a 24-hour-long bloody diarrhea and constitutional syndrome. Colonoscopy confirmed the presence of a colonic neoplasia. A CT scan revealed an irregular surface and poorly delimited hypodensity of liver segment 5, next to the neoplasia, with malignant infiltration being impossible to rule out.

Concurrent hepatic and renal angiomyolipomas in tuberous sclerosis complex.

Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a rare disease which is characterized by widespread of a variety of benign tumors in multiple organs. Renal angiomyolipomas (AMLs) are the primary cause of morbidity in TSC due to anemia, renal failure or spontaneous bleeding. In contrast, the hepatic involvement is unusual and it is infrequently described in literature.

Training in Ultrasound for Resident Physicians in Gastroenterology: a survey and training project by the Spanish Association of Digestive Ultrasound (Asociación Española de Ecografía Digestiva - AEED).

Background: the training program of the gastroenterology specialty that is mandatory for resident physicians, obliges them to be proficient in diagnostic and therapeutic digestive ultrasound tools.

Methodology: the Asociación Española de Ecografía Digestiva (AEED) performed a survey of the 93 Departments of Gastroenterology with training programs for resident physicians in gastroenterology, in order to assess the exact situation of training in digestive ultrasound in Spain.

Results: only 31 of the 93 (33%) Departments of Gastroenterology were able to provide training in Digestive Ultrasound.

Characteristics and survival of hepatocellular carcinoma in non-cirrhotic liver.

Introduction: the characteristics, screening, and survival of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) for patients without cirrhosis have not been fully studied.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study was performed in non-cirrhotic patients with histological HCC, between January 2004 and October 2018. Their characteristics, treatment, follow-up and overall survival were described.

[Percutaneous ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma in older patients in clinical practice].

Introduction: A high percentage of older patients with early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are potential candidates for percutaneous ablation.

Material And Methods: We prospectively assessed data from patients older than 70 years with HCC. We determined their demographic and clinical characteristics, the treatment provided and the response, complications and survival among those treated with radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and/or percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI).

[Clinical characteristics, staging and treatment of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma in clinical practice. Prospective study of 136 patients].

Unlabelled: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most frequent cause of mortality in patients with liver cirrhosis. There are no prospective series from a single tertiary hospital in Spain.

Material And Methods: We performed a prospective study of patients with HCC in our center.

[Utility of endoscopic ultrasonography in the etiological diagnosis of patients with acute idiopathic pancreatitis].

Unlabelled: The aim of this study was to evaluate the utility of endoscopic ultrasonography in the etiological diagnosis of patients initially diagnosed with acute idiopathic pancreatitis and to determine the clinical and laboratory factors related to the results of this technique.

Material And Methods: We studied 73 patients initially diagnosed with acute idiopathic pancreatitis and referred to our service for biliopancreatic endoscopic ultrasonography. A positive result was considered to be identification of at least one possible cause of pancreatitis, excluding patients in whom the only echoendoscopic finding was chronic pancreatitis.

[Value of contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the diagnosis of hepatocarcinoma in focal lesions detected in patients with liver disease].

Objective: To assess the value of contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the detection of arterial hypervascularity as a diagnostic criterion of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients with focal lesions and liver disease.

Patients And Methods: This prospective study included patients with chronic liver disease and focal liver lesions on ultrasound (US) examination. SonoVue was used as contrast agent.

[Contribution of endoscopic ultrasound to the diagnosis of pancreatic metastases from renal carcinoma. Apropos of two cases].

Pancreatic metastases represent 2% of pancreatic tumors. The neoplasms most frequently metastasizing to the pancreas are breast, lung, melanoma and kidney tumors. We present the cases of two patients with pancreatic metastases from renal carcinoma diagnosed 4 and 8 years after the diagnosis and surgical treatment of the primary renal tumor.

[Clinicopathological characteristics of uninvestigated dyspepsia in Spain].

Introduction: Most patients with uninvestigated dyspepsia are diagnosed with functional dyspepsia. Various types of Helicobacter pylori gastritis have been described, each of which is associated with a distinct natural history of the infection (i.e.