Advances in Endoscopic Therapy for Gastrointestinal Disease
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Radiobiology and Nuclear Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 April 2023) | Viewed by 30547
Special Issue Editors
Interests: endoscopy; endoscopic submucosal dissection; radiofrequency ablation; anti-reflux mucosectomy; endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty; per-oral endoscopic myotomy; esophageal cancer; Barrett’s esophagus; achalasia; colon cancer; reflux disease
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Interests: endoscopy; biliary-pancreas disease; endoscopic ultrasound; endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography; endoscopic intervention; endoscopic drainage; neuroendocrine tumor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As the techniques and instruments are rapidly evolving, the role of endoscopic therapies has become highly important in many gastrointestinal diseases. For early epithelial lesions, endoscopic resection or ablation has been the first-line option given its effectiveness and safety. Furthermore, significant subepithelial lesions may be safely resected endoscopically in the presence of new instruments and the expanding roles of “third-space endoscopy”. Pancreato-biliary endoscopy is a well-established field. Nevertheless, the progress of internal drainage has been ongoing to replace the need of percutaneous and surgical treatments, and endoscopic ablation may contribute the multi-modality treatment of malignant pancreato-biliary neoplasm. In addition, endoscopic therapies can be useful in non-malignant motility or functional disease. While the success of peroral endoscopic myotomy for achalasia is the most remarkable case, endoscopic therapies continue to show promising potential in gastroesophageal reflux disease, obesity, and metabolic disease.
In this Special Issue, we welcome any original research, technical note, or review articles which address the therapeutic advances in gastrointestinal endoscopy and provide insights into clinical practice as well as future innovations.
Dr. Wen-Lun Wang
Prof. Dr. Hsiu-Po Wang
Dr. Jen-Hao Yeh
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- endoscopic intervention
- endoscopic ultrasound
- endoscopic mucosal resection
- endoscopic submucosal dissection
- radiofrequency ablation
- anti-reflux mucosectomy
- endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty
- per-oral endoscopic myotomy
- third-space endoscopy
- endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
- gastrointestinal disease
- pancreato-biliary disease
- motility disorders
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