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Gastric Oxyntic Mucosa Pseudopolyposis
12 March 2010
A 25-year-old woman was admitted to the gastroenterology clinic with abdominal discomfort. She had been using proton pump inhibitors for 3 years and had a history of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy i...
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Mehmet Çelikbilek,
Kemal Deniz,
Edip Torun
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Short communication
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page e90
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Use of Magnifying Endoscopy to Identify Early Esophageal Adenocarcinoma in Ectopic Gastric Mucosa of the Cervical Esophagus
29 March 2010
Considering that the prevalence of ectopic gastric mucosa (EGM) of the cervical esophagus is by no means low endoscopically (10%–14.2%) and also experimentally, the malignant potential seems to be ext...
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Takeshi Yoshida,
Yuichi Shimizu,
Mototsugu Kato
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Short communication
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pages e91-e93
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Endoscopic Ultrasound in a Case of a Widened Mediastinum
08 March 2010
A 35-year-old woman presented with history of low-grade fever, anorexia, malaise, and significant loss of weight for the past 3 months. General physical examination was unremarkable except for mild pa...
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Malay Sharma,
Aravindh Somasundaram,
Balakrishnan Mahadevan
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Short communication
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page e94
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| CME Activities |
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Exam 1: Endoscopic Mucosal Resection in the Management of Esophageal Neoplasia: Current Status and Future Directions
05 August 2010
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Charles O. Elson
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Examination
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pages e95-e96
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Exam 2: A 41-Year-Old Woman With Abdominal Complaints: Is It Food Allergy or Food Intolerance? How to Tell the Difference
05 August 2010
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Charles O. Elson
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Examination
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Abstracts from Around the World
05 August 2010
Variceal bleeding is a common and life threatening manifestation of portal hypertension. The use of esophageal banding has improved hemostasis rates, but there remain patients who fail such treatment....
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Discussion
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pages 739-740
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Benefit of Acid-Suppressive Therapy in Chronic Laryngitis: The Devil Is in the Details
31 May 2010
Gastroesophageal reflux disease is increasingly associated with ear, nose, and throat symptoms. The surge of referrals for presumed reflux-related throat symptoms in a group of patients who are not re...
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Michael F. Vaezi
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pages 741-742
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Endoscopic Mucosal Resection in the Management of Esophageal Neoplasia: Current Status and Future Directions
11 June 2010
Endoscopic mucosal resection has expanded the role of the gastroenterologist in the management of esophageal neoplasia from screening and diagnosis to staging and endoscopic treatment. Its rise to pro...
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Vikneswaran Namasivayam,
Kenneth K. Wang,
Ganapathy A. Prasad
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pages 743-754
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A 41-Year-Old Woman With Abdominal Complaints: Is It Food Allergy or Food Intolerance? How to Tell the Difference
05 April 2010
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Marisa A. Degaetani,
Sheila E. Crowe
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pages 755-759
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| Endoscopy Corner |
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Low Incidence of Complications From Endoscopic Gastric Variceal Obturation With Butyl Cyanoacrylate
31 May 2010
Background & Aims: Endoscopic variceal obturation with tissue adhesive is used to control gastric variceal bleeding. We investigated the prevalence of serious complications from this therapy. Meth...
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Liu–Fang Cheng,
Zhi–Qiang Wang,
Chang–Zheng Li,
Wu Lin,
Anthony E.T. Yeo,
Bo Jin
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pages 760-766
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| Practice Management: Opportunities and Challenges |
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Value-Based Insurance Design: Implications for Gastroenterology
Despite the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the tension between improved health care quality and escalating medical spending remains on public display. As the shar...
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Sameer D. Saini,
A. Mark Fendrick
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pages 767-769
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| Original Articles-Alimentary Tract |
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Rabeprazole Is Effective in Treating Laryngopharyngeal Reflux in a Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial
19 March 2010
Background & Aims: There is controversy about the efficacy of treating patients with laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) using proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). We assessed the effects of high doses of th...
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Paul K.Y. Lam,
Manwa L. Ng,
Ting K. Cheung,
Birgitta Y.H. Wong,
Victoria P.Y. Tan,
Daniel Y.T. Fong,
William I. Wei,
Benjamin C.Y. Wong
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pages 770-776
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Variations in Presentations of Esophageal Involvement in Lichen Planus
14 May 2010
Background & Aims: Lichen planus is a relatively uncommon, presumed autoimmune disease that affects middle-aged patients and is manifested in the skin, nails, and mucous membranes. Reports of esop...
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David A. Katzka,
Thomas C. Smyrk,
Alison J. Bruce,
Yvonne Romero,
Jeffrey A. Alexander,
Joseph A. Murray
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pages 777-782
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Greater Interobserver Agreement by Endoscopic Mucosal Resection Than Biopsy Samples in Barrett's Dysplasia
17 May 2010
Background & Aims: Endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) is an important diagnostic, staging, and therapeutic tool for patients with Barrett's esophagus (BE)–associated neoplasia. We analyzed the his...
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Sachin Wani,
Sharad C. Mathur,
Wouter L. Curvers,
Vikas Singh,
Lorenza Alvarez Herrero,
Sandy B. Hall,
Ozlem Ulusarac,
Rachel Cherian,
Douglas H. McGregor,
Ajay Bansal,
Amit Rastogi,
Basem Ahmed,
Mandeep Singh,
Srinivas Gaddam,
Fiebo J. Ten Kate,
Jacques Bergman,
Prateek Sharma
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pages 783-788.e2
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Factors That Determine Risk for Surgery in Pediatric Patients With Crohn's Disease
31 May 2010
Background & Aims: We examined the incidence of Crohn's disease (CD)-related surgery in a multi-center, inception cohort of pediatric patients with CD. We also examined the effect of starting immu...
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Marc E. Schaefer,
Jason T. Machan,
David Kawatu,
Christine R. Langton,
James Markowitz,
Wallace Crandall,
David R. Mack,
Jonathan S. Evans,
Marian D. Pfefferkorn,
Anne M. Griffiths,
Anthony R. Otley,
Athos Bousvaros,
Subra Kugathasan,
Joel R. Rosh,
David J. Keljo,
Ryan S. Carvalho,
Gitit Tomer,
Petar Mamula,
Marsha H. Kay,
Benny Kerzner,
Maria Oliva–Hemker,
Michael D. Kappelman,
Shehzad A. Saeed,
Jeffrey S. Hyams,
Neal S. LeLeiko
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pages 789-794.e2
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Juvenile Polyps: Recurrence in Patients With Multiple and Solitary Polyps
26 May 2010
Background & Aims: Juvenile polyps are benign hamartomas with neoplastic potential that are the most frequent gastrointestinal polyp of childhood. Most information about juvenile polyps in childho...
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Victor L. Fox,
Stephen Perros,
Hongyu Jiang,
Jeffrey D. Goldsmith
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pages 795-799
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| Original Articles-Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract |
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Liver Cirrhosis Is Associated With Venous Thromboembolism Among Hospitalized Patients in a Nationwide US Study
26 May 2010
Background & Aims: Studies on the impact of liver disease on venous thromboembolism (VTE) have produced conflicting results. We assessed the risk of VTE in patients with compensated or decompensat...
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Harry Wu,
Geoffrey C. Nguyen
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pages 800-805.e1
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High Prevalence of Pancreatic Cysts Detected by Screening Magnetic Resonance Imaging Examinations
31 May 2010
Background & Aims: The prevalence of pancreatic cysts is not known, but asymptomatic pancreatic cysts are diagnosed with increasing frequency. We investigated the prevalence of pancreatic cysts in...
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Koen de Jong,
C. Yung Nio,
John J. Hermans,
Marcel G. Dijkgraaf,
Dirk J. Gouma,
Casper H.J. van Eijck,
Eddy van Heel,
Gunter Klass,
Paul Fockens,
Marco J. Bruno
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pages 806-811
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A Population-Based Description of Familial Clustering of Pancreatic Cancer
26 May 2010
Background & Aims: Several familial pancreatic cancer syndromes have been identified. However, the prevalence of familial pancreatic cancers in the general population has not been well defined. Me...
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Brian H. Shirts,
Randall W. Burt,
Sean J. Mulvihill,
Lisa A. Cannon–Albright
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pages 812-816
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Biofilm Demolition and Antibiotic Treatment to Eradicate Resistant Helicobacter pylori: A Clinical Trial
17 May 2010
Background & Aims: Helicobacter pylori attaches to gastric mucosa and grows as a biofilm. This constitutes protection from antimicrobial agents. We assessed the role of a pretreatment with n-acety...
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Giovanni Cammarota,
Giovanna Branca,
Fausta Ardito,
Maurizio Sanguinetti,
Gianluca Ianiro,
Rossella Cianci,
Riccardo Torelli,
Giovanna Masala,
Antonio Gasbarrini,
Giovanni Fadda,
Raffaele Landolfi,
Giovanni Gasbarrini
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pages 817-820.e3
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Risk Factors for Colorectal Cancer After Negative Colonoscopy
07 May 2010
In a recent issue, Rabeneck et al reported endoscopic specialty to be an important determinant of the effectiveness of screening colonoscopy but found no association between endoscopist colonoscopy vo...
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Tarun Rustagi
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Correspondence
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page 821
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Reply
30 June 2010
We thank Dr Rustagi for the letter in response to our article. This exchange provides an opportunity to comment on 2 issues: (1) interpretation of results from multivariable models and (2) existing ev...
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Linda Rabeneck
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Correspondence
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Miscellaneous
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Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis of the Stomach Mimicking Early Gastric Cancer
01 February 2010
A 48-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for further examination of an abnormality detected on an upper gastrointestinal (GI) examination. He had no symptoms and his vital signs were normal. Phy...
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Yuichi Nozaki,
Hisashi Oshiro,
Atsushi Nakajima
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Short communication
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page A18
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Diaphragm-Like Stricture of the Small Intestine Related to Cytomegalovirus Infection
01 February 2010
A 53-year-old man was referred to our hospital for evaluation of fever, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and vomiting approximately 1 year after receiving an allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for acute ...
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Takahiro Shimizu,
Hiroyuki Marusawa,
Yukitaka Yamashita
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Short communication
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page A21
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Primary Malignant Melanoma of the Esophagus
05 April 2010
Primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus is an extremely rare neoplasm representing 0.1% to 0.2% of all primary esophageal cancers. Fewer than 300 cases have been reported in the world's literature...
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Thomas Frieling,
Juergen Heise,
Bernhard Hemmerlein
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Short communication
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Editorial Board
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Editorial board
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Contents
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Contents list
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Information for Authors and Readers
Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology is the go-to resource on a broad spectrum of themes in clinical gastroenterology and hepatology. The official clinical practice journal of the AGA Institute br...
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Copyright Assignment, Authorship Responsibility, NIH Funding, Financial Disclosure, Institutional Review Board/Animal Care Committee Approval, and Sponsorship
In consideration of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute (the “AGA Institute”) taking action to review and credit the below-identified submission (the “Manuscript”), and for ot...
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