Endoscopic ultrasound, which was developed more than 20 years ago, is currently a valuable investigative tool for endoscopists. It began as a diagnostic instrument and in the short span of a decade ...

We have moved interventional procedures guidance 761 to become HealthTech guidance 673. This is to better reflect the NICE HealthTech programme which combines the former NICE Diagnostics Assessment ...

According to a new statement from a panel of national and international experts in gastroenterology, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and other areas, interventional (or therapeutic) IBD endoscopy has ...

Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) has transformed the evaluation of pancreatic disease by combining high-resolution imaging with targeted tissue acquisition. Two principal approaches—fine-needle aspiration ...

Emerson Hospital and Middlesex Digestive Health and Endoscopy Center announced that endoscopic ultrasound procedures are now offered at Emerson Hospital in Concord. The EUS device is the latest in ...

Faced with a growing global burden of liver diseases, specialists are stressing the importance of early diagnosis and precise treatment strategies to avoid the deleterious outcome of cirrhosis and ...

In the management of patients with esophageal cancer, distant metastases should be excluded with positron emission tomography (PET) scan or computed tomography (CT) scan before EUS is considered. In ...

Evidence-based recommendations on endoscopic ultrasound-guided biliary drainage for biliary obstruction. This involves passing a thin tube (called an endoscope) with an ultrasound probe at the tip ...