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"Tulip bundle rescue" troubleshooting over-the-scope clip (OTSC) failure in ERCP-related duodenal perforation (Stapfer I)

scientific article published on 09 December 2017

"Turning the outside in": Bariatric gastroplication

scientific article published on 17 May 2017

'Knitting-through-the-mesh': Novel single-channel troubleshooter technique for dilation-assisted transstricture retrieval of a migrated gastroduodenal stent

scientific article published on 21 November 2017

55-year old man with pain in the lower left abdomen

scientific article published on 7 January 2014

A "tandem approach" using sequential diagnostic (ultraslim) and therapeutic (standard size) direct freehand cholangioscopy to guide mechanical lithotripsy of a giant cystic duct remnant stone

scientific article published on 2 May 2017

A Flat Tire in the Colon

scientific article published on 17 January 2018

A common variant in the precursor miR-146a sequence does not predispose to cholangiocarcinoma in a large European cohort.

scientific article published in August 2012

A frequent variant in the human bile salt export pump gene ABCB11 is associated with hepatitis C virus infection, but not liver stiffness in a German population

scientific article published on June 8, 2012

A stomach carpeted red.

scientific article published on 22 January 2011

A unique rectal lesion: heterotopic gastric mucosa with bland squamous cell epithelium

scientific article published on 12 November 2019

Acute Bacterial Cholangitis

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Acute and Chronic Inflammation of the Biliary System

scientific article published on 12 June 2015

Acute biliary pancreatitis caught in the act

scientific article published on 12 September 2020

Additional working channel-assisted endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR+): a novel tool for en bloc resection of colorectal lesions

scientific article published on 05 December 2019

An Uncommon Category of Polyp Lesion in a Western Colon

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

An Uncommon Destination of Routine Esophagogastroduodenoscopy

scientific article published on 29 January 2016

An Unexpected Finding on Digital Rectal Examination

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

An ambivalent common bile duct

scientific article published on 21 December 2017

An unusual cause of jaundice in pregnancy

scientific article published on 01 November 2010

Association of total cholesterol with severe acute pancreatitis: A U-shaped relationship

scientific article published on 31 January 2019

Benign recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis (BRIC)-like episode associated with ATP8B1 variation underlying protracted cholestatic course of acute hepatitis E virus infection.

scientific article published on 8 November 2017

Biliary cast syndrome in sclerosing cholangitis

scientific article published on 06 March 2010

Biliary strictures and recurrence after liver transplantation for primary sclerosing cholangitis: A retrospective multicenter analysis.

scientific article published on 5 October 2015

Biopsy forceps fixation: Novel trick of the trade for duodenal guidewire unlooping

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Cap-assisted aspiration mucosectomy of a laterally spreading ileocecal valve lesion

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

Cap-assisted double-lumen ERCP with forceps fixation for a tricky biliary access in periampullary diverticulum

scientific article published on 28 June 2018

Capsule endoscopic celiac disease markers

scientific article published on 03 March 2011

Cholangiocarcinoma presenting as Sister Mary Joseph's nodule: case report and short review of the literature

scientific article published on June 2014

Cholangioscopic characterization of a giant barrel-shaped bile duct stone

scientific article published on 24 January 2020

Chronic diarrhea responding to proton pump inhibitors: a clinical sign of Zollinger-Ellison syndrome

scientific article published on 01 November 2009

Clinical genetics in endoscopy: a two-question diagnosis in a patient with gastrointestinal angiodysplasia

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Clinical images: Multiple esophageal submucosal hematomas

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Clinical periodontal and microbiologic parameters in patients with Crohn's disease with consideration of the CARD15 genotype.

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Colonoscopy in acute appendicitis

scientific article published on 15 October 2010

Combined functional variants of hepatobiliary transporters and FXR aggravate intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy

scientific article published on 01 September 2009

Criteria Used in Clinical Practice to Guide Immunosuppressive Treatment in Patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis.

scientific article published on 21 October 2015

Crowned dens syndrome

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

Delta-Like Ligand 4 Modulates Liver Damage by Down-Regulating Chemokine Expression

scientific article published on 09 May 2016

Device-assisted nonexposed endoscopic full-thickness resection (EFTR) for completion of resection of a rectal neuroendocrine neoplasm

scientific article published on 05 November 2019

Diagnosis of mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy: proposal of a clinical algorithm

scientific article published on 13 April 2014

Different apoptotic responses of RA synoviocytes depending on different genotypes of the mdm2 SNP T309G.

scientific article published in April 2012

Dilation-assisted transpapillary alligator forceps retrieval of a fully covered self-expanding metal stent with long-term migration

scientific article published on 15 June 2020

Direct cholangioscopic perspective on cholecystitis

scientific article published on 11 April 2018

Direct cholangioscopy for exposure and treatment of bile duct stone disease in a "megacholedochus"

scientific article published on 24 January 2020

Direct intrahepatic cholangioscopy

scientific article published on 16 March 2018

ERC vs. direct cholangioscopy: Dawn of a new reference standard

scientific article published on 13 October 2017

Education and Imaging. Gastrointestinal: large antro-duodenal ulcers following hepatic selective internal radiotherapy

scientific article published on 01 October 2010

Endoscopic appearance of diffuse cavernous hemangioma of the rectosigmoid

scientific article published on 17 April 2015

Endoscopic resection of a large duodenal hamartoma related to SMAD4-associated juvenile polyposis/hereditary hemorrhagic teleangiectasia syndrome

scientific article published on 01 November 2011

Endoscopic resection of a prolapsing giant villous adenoma of the supraanal rectum

scientific article published on 22 August 2019

Endoscopic shielding using oxidized regenerated cellulose after argon plasma coagulation under mandatory dual antiplatelet therapy

scientific article published on 08 February 2019

Endoscopic view of appendicitis

scientific article published on 01 June 2008

Esophageal dilation in eosinophilic esophagitis using a novel endoscopic device

scientific article published on 20 April 2019

Esophageal intramural pseudodiverticulosis in mucous membrane pemphigoid: potential diagnostic utility of C4d immunohistochemistry

scientific article published on 01 November 2012

Extensive dabigatran-induced exfoliative esophagitis harboring squamous cell carcinoma

scientific article published on 06 June 2014

Fatty acid elongation in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma

scientific article published on 4 April 2014

Forceps de-inversion converting a polyp into a diverticulum

scientific article published on 04 July 2018

GISToscopy

scientific article published on 23 July 2018

Gardner variant of familial adenomatous polyposis: from extensive skull osteomatosis to metastatic rectal remnant cancer

scientific article published on 13 March 2009

Gastrointestinal perforation due to vasculitis at primary diagnosis of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) despite a high dose glucocorticosteroids treatment

scientific article published on 4 August 2014

Gastrointestinal: "Introducer-to-pull type switch" approach for long-term percutaneous endoscopic cecostomy

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Gastrointestinal: An uncommon finding during screening colonoscopy: silent appendicitis

scientific article published on 20 December 2020

Gastrointestinal: BougieCap passage for calibration of an endoscopically equivocal peptic stricture/Schatzki ring

scientific article published on 17 December 2019

Gastrointestinal: Franseen-tip transmural fine-needle biopsy for localized gastric linitis plastica

scientific article published on 10 December 2020

Gastrointestinal: Next-generation DASE in extensive bile duct stone disease: Introducing "dilation-assisted cholangioscopic stone extraction" (DACSE).

scientific article published in January 2018

Gastrointestinal: No touch-guidewire cannulation in periampullary diverticulum

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

Gastrointestinal: Spontaneous air versus dye cholangiogram in bile duct stone disease

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Gastrointestinal: The duodenum on and off olmesartan

scientific article published on 10 December 2020

Gastrointestinal: Utilization of a novel dedicated stent fixation clip device ("stentfix OTSC") for an umbrella-type cardia stent

scientific article published on 29 January 2020

Gastrointestinal: Wrong connection: An infected mediastinal pseudocyst complicating disconnected duct syndrome

scientific article published on 27 June 2018

Genetics and epigenetics in the fibrogenic evolution of chronic liver diseases

scientific article published on April 2011

Genetics in liver disease: new concepts

scientific article published on May 2011

Genome-wide association studies and genetic risk assessment of liver diseases

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Genotypic interaction and gender specificity of common genetic variants in the p53/mdm2 network in Crohn's disease.

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Hepatocellular carcinoma as extracolonic manifestation of Lynch syndrome indicates SEC63 as potential target gene in hepatocarcinogenesis

scientific article published on March 2013

Heterozygosity for the alpha1-antitrypsin Z allele may confer genetic risk of cholangiocarcinoma

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Hidden papilla and periampullary diverticulum: Curtain up for stacked folds

scientific article published on 04 February 2019

High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol, Blood Urea Nitrogen, and Serum Creatinine Can Predict Severe Acute Pancreatitis.

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IGF2 mRNA binding protein p62/IMP2-2 in hepatocellular carcinoma: antiapoptotic action is independent of IGF2/PI3K signaling

scientific article published on 20 December 2012

Influence of amantadine on CD81 expression on lymphocytes in chronic hepatitis C.

scientific article published on 24 April 2010

Iron deficiency anemia without a source of bleeding. A diagnostic mosaic

scientific article published in October 2013

Ischemic proctitis complicating fecal impaction

scientific article published on 10 October 2020

Knock-knock-knockin' on bile duct's door: the "tip-of-the-biopsy-forceps technique" - probing the route during freehand-intubated direct cholangioscopy.

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Late-Presenting Duodenal Web

scientific article published on 07 September 2018

Long-scope position insertion for a challenging bile duct access by a novel digital single-operator cholangioscope (SpyGlass DS) in periampullary diverticulum

scientific article published on 12 December 2018

Looking Into the Crystal Ball: Predicting Non-response to Ursodeoxycholic Acid in Primary Biliary Cholangitis

scientific article published on 15 December 2016

Macrophage stimulating protein variation enhances the risk of sporadic extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.

scientific article published on 16 February 2013

Metastatic lobular breast cancer presenting as gastric linitis plastica

scientific article published on 14 May 2011

Multidisciplinary treatment of desmoid tumours in Gardner's syndrome due to a large interstitial deletion of chromosome 5q.

scientific article published on 18 February 2014

NOD2 gene variants confer risk for secondary sclerosing cholangitis in critically ill patients.

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Naked Fat Sign Is a Characteristic of Colonic Lipoma

scientific article published on 03 March 2018

Non-exposed device-assisted endoscopic full-thickness resection (FTRD) for a challenging colorectal adenoma recurrence after endoscopic mucosal resection using a test cap

scientific article published on 09 July 2020

Novel biopsy forceps anchoring technique for completion of direct cholangioscopy after freehand intubation

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Novel through-the-scope technique for biliary plastic stent removal/exchange.

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Novel unroofing approach for incipient suprapapillary stone perforation causing papillary invagination ("the crescent sign").

scientific article published on 30 May 2017

Nuclear receptor variants in liver disease

scientific article published on 27 May 2015

One less ulcer, one extra pylorus

scientific article published on 19 January 2011

Pancreatic cancer risk variant ABO rs505922 in patients with cholangiocarcinoma

scientific article published on November 2011

Patient Age, Sex, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Phenotype Associate With Course of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

scientific article published on 5 March 2017

Piggyback Rendezvous Cannulation for Endoscopic Metal Stent Conversion of Percutaneous Transhepatic Biliary Drainage

scientific article published on 11 October 2017

Positioning cholangioscopy in bile duct stone management: mind the technology gap

Potential genotype-specific single nucleotide polymorphism interaction of common variation in p53 and its negative regulator mdm2 in cholangiocarcinoma susceptibility

scientific article published on 17 April 2012

Predictors of acute pancreatitis with low elevation of serum amylase

scientific article published on 14 December 2017

Proinflammatory progranulin antibodies in inflammatory bowel diseases

scientific article published on 4 March 2014

Protein, o protein: where hast thou gone?

scientific article published on 2 April 2013

Re-purposed use of a stiffening wire as a novel adjunct for direct cholangioscopy access

scientific article published on 26 October 2017

Relationship between low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and severe acute pancreatitis ("the lipid paradox").

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Rescue "dilation-assisted cholangioscopic stone extraction" (DACSE) after DASE failure

scientific article published on 08 April 2017

Retrograde transpyloric hemostatic powder intervention of a concealed prepyloric antral ulcer

scientific article published on 01 December 2014

Right-sided diverticulitis

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Role of genetics in diagnosis and therapy of acquired liver disease

scientific article published on 25 October 2013

Scissor-type knife stalk transection for a difficult-to-access pedunculated colorectal lesion

scientific article published on 10 December 2020

Secondary Budd-Chiari syndrome complicating calcified right atrial thrombosis related to ventriculoatrial shunt.

scientific article published on 19 September 2012

Sideropenic dysphagia

scientific article published on 29 October 2009

Splenosis mimicking hepatic adenoma

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Stony Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding

scientific article published on 24 September 2019

Tentacular-Type Esophageal Squamous Papilloma

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Terlipressin-induced skin necrosis and rhabdomyolysis

scientific article published on December 2010

The "Bubble Sign" Indicating Ileal Pneumatosis Cystoides

scientific article published on 19 November 2019

The "swinging" squamocolumnar junction in esophagocardiac achalasia

scientific article published on 23 May 2012

The "two-devices-in-one-channel technique" for biliary through-the-scope stent removal

scientific article published on 01 June 2017

The MUTYH hotspot mutations p.G396D and p.Y179C do not cause substantial genetic susceptibility to biliary cancer

scientific article published on 01 June 2014

The Rusty Ring Sign Streamlining Flat Lesion Detection in Subtle Melanosis Coli.

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The cecal mucus sign underlying appendiceal sessile serrated polyp/adenoma without dysplasia

scientific article published on 04 July 2020

The cecal patch: a signature skip lesion in ulcerative colitis

scientific article published on 12 November 2019

The etiology of liver damage imparts cytokines transforming growth factor beta1 or interleukin-13 as driving forces in fibrogenesis

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The molecular basis for development of proinflammatory autoantibodies to progranulin

scientific article published on 23 May 2015

Three of a (Peptic) Kind!

scientific article published on 21 November 2017

Transpapillary passage of a giant bile duct stone after endoscopic papillary large balloon dilation and short-term stenting

scientific article published on 31 March 2017

Ureterosigmoidostomy

scientific article published on 30 September 2019

Variant adiponutrin (PNPLA3) represents a common fibrosis risk gene: non-invasive elastography-based study in chronic liver disease

scientific article published on 17 December 2010

West meets East: dynamic ERCP characterization of pancreaticobiliary maljunction without biliary dilation underlying extensive biliary tract cancer

scientific article published on 30 May 2017

Why extragastric deep-type buried bumper syndrome should (not) be a contraindication for endoscopic treatment?

scientific article published on 30 May 2018

[67-year-old patient with recurrent gastroduodenal ulcer].

scientific article published on 25 February 2013

[Former brewery worker with liver cirrhosis: beer was not the cause!]

scientific article published on 01 March 2012

[Recurrent hypoglycemia with elevated insulin levels in a 75-year-old man]

scientific article published on 01 June 2013