Digestive Endoscopy
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Digestive Endoscopy (DEN) is the official journal of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society, the Asian Pacific Society for Digestive Endoscopy, and the World Endoscopy Organization. Digestive Endoscopy serves as a medium for presenting original articles that offer significant contributions to knowledge in the broad field of endoscopy.
Digestive Endoscopy
5d ago
The purpose of preoperative biliary drainage (PBD) is to reduce complications during the perioperative period. The extrahepatic bile duct comprises distal and hilar bile ducts and assessing the need for PBD must be considered separately for each duct, as surgical procedures and morbidities vary. The representative disease-causing distal bile duct obstruction is pancreatic cancer. A randomized controlled trial has revealed that PBD carries the risk of recurrent cholangitis and pancreatitis before surgery, thus eliminating the need for PBD when early surgery is feasible. However, neoadjuvant the ..read more
Digestive Endoscopy
1w ago
Cover image: Representative images of meaningful findings missed by humans but detected by the convolutional neural network algorithm. Erosion or ulcer. (See Choi KS et al. p. 440 ..read more
Digestive Endoscopy
1w ago
Digestive Endoscopy, Volume 36, Issue 4, Page 510-515, April 2024 ..read more
Digestive Endoscopy
1w ago
Digestive Endoscopy, Volume 36, Issue 4, Page 392-394, April 2024 ..read more