Annals of Gastroenterology

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Biodegradable esophageal stents for the treatment of refractory benign esophageal strictures

Paraskevas Gkolfakis, Peter D. Siersema, Georgios Tziatzios, Konstantinos Triantafyllou, Ioannis S. Papanikolaou

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Gastrointestinal involvement in COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Theodore Rokkas

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Comparison between cap-assisted and ligation-assisted endoscopic mucosal resection for rectal neuroendocrine tumors

Jin Lee, Yong Eun Park, Joon Hyuk Choi, Nae-Yun Heo, Jongha Park, Seung Ha Park, Young Soo Moon, Kyung Han Nam, Tae Oh Kim

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Efficacy and safety of plastic versus lumen-apposing metal stents for transmural drainage of walled-off necrosis: a retrospective single-center study

Surinder Singh Rana, Ravi Sharma, Lovneet Dhalaria, Rajesh Gupta

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Current Issue

Volume 33, No 4 (2020)

Published: 2020-07-05

Special Article

Preliminary considerations regarding the risk of COVID-19 and disease severity in chronic gastrointestinal conditions

Matteo Piciucchi, Andrea Sbrozzi-Vanni, Alice Rossi, Alissa Satriano, Iginio Dell'Amico, Vincenzo De Francesco, Angelo Zullo, Raffaele Manta

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Invited Reviews

Biodegradable esophageal stents for the treatment of refractory benign esophageal strictures

Paraskevas Gkolfakis, Peter D. Siersema, Georgios Tziatzios, Konstantinos Triantafyllou, Ioannis S. Papanikolaou

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Advances in the endoscopic management of malignant biliary obstruction

Thomas Thomaidis, George Kallimanis, Gary May, Pinghong Zhou, Visvakanth Sivanathan, Jeff Mosko, John K. Triantafillidis, Christopher Teshima, Markus Moehler

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Review Articles

Red cell distribution width as a marker of activity in inflammatory bowel disease: a narrative review

Marios Katsaros, Paschalis Paschos, Olga Giouleme

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Original Articles

Gastrointestinal involvement in COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Theodore Rokkas

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Endoscopic sedation practices of Greek gastroenterologists: a nationwide survey

Adonis A. Protopapas, Evangelos Stournaras, Georgios Neokosmidis, Dimitrios Stogiannou, Athanasios Filippidis, Andreas N. Protopapas

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Implementing visual cues to improve the efficacy of screening colonoscopy: exploiting the Hawthorne effect

Eric Omar Then, Christopher Brana, Sriharsha Dadana, Srikanth Maddika, Andrew Ofosu, Sabrina Brana, Tina Wexler, Tagore Sunkara, Andrea Culliford, Vinaya Gaduputi

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Efficacy and safety of underwater endoscopic mucosal resection for superficial non-ampullary duodenal epithelial tumors: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Neil Bhogal, Babu Mohan, Saurabh Chandan, Amaninder Dhaliwal, Suresh Ponnada, Ishfaq Bhat, Shailender Singh, Douglas G. Adler

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Comparison between cap-assisted and ligation-assisted endoscopic mucosal resection for rectal neuroendocrine tumors

Jin Lee, Yong Eun Park, Joon Hyuk Choi, Nae-Yun Heo, Jongha Park, Seung Ha Park, Young Soo Moon, Kyung Han Nam, Tae Oh Kim

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Feasibility of endoscopic ultrasound-guided gallbladder drainage for acute cholecystitis patients receiving antithrombotic therapy

Ryota Sagami, Kenji Hayasaka, Tetsuro Ujihara, Ryotaro Nakahara, Daisuke Murakami, Tomoyuki Iwaki, Yasushi Katsuyama, Hideaki Harada, Hiroaki Tsuji, Takao Sato, Hidefumi Nishikiori, Kazunari Murakami, Yuji Amano

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Mean platelet volume in acute pancreatitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Vasileios P. Papadopoulos, Dimitrios K. Filippou, Konstantinos P. Mimidis

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Rectal indomethacin reduces the risk of post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography pancreatitis in low-risk patients

Mohamed M. Abdelfatah, Eric Gochanour, Nicholas J. Koutlas, Ahmed Hamed, Glenn Harvin, Mohamed O. Othman

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Rectal versus intramuscular diclofenac in prevention of post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography pancreatitis: experience of a Greek tertiary referral center

Ioannis Kalantzis, Androniki Poulou, Athanasios Papatheodorou, Konstantinos Gkoumas

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Finding a needle in a haystack: Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration for solid pancreatic masses in the setting of chronic pancreatitis

Chencheng Xie, Kimberlee Bohy, Mohamed A. Abdallah, Bhaveshkumar Patel, Morgan E. Nelson, Jonathan Bleeker, Ryan Askeland, Ammar Abdullah, Khalil Aloreidi, Rabia Kiani, Muslim Atiq

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Efficacy and safety of plastic versus lumen-apposing metal stents for transmural drainage of walled-off necrosis: a retrospective single-center study

Surinder Singh Rana, Ravi Sharma, Lovneet Dhalaria, Rajesh Gupta

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Case Report

Pyoderma gangrenosum associated with chronic refractory pouchitis: a case successfully treated with infliximab

Dimitra Koumaki, Eleni Orfanoudaki, Angeliki Machaira, Eleni Lagoudaki, Konstantinos Krasagakis, Ioannis E. Koutroubakis

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Images of the Month

Ligation-assisted endoscopic full-thickness resection with over-the-scope clip targeted for neuroendocrine tumors

Hideki Kobara, Noriko Nishiyama, Shintaro Fujihara, Tsutomu Masaki

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Linked color imaging and blue light imaging for evaluating a depressed-type adenoma in the colon

Shunsuke Yamamoto, Nima Mottacki

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Cholangitis with large common bile duct dilatation caused by choledochal macrolithiasis

Gaëtan-Romain Joliat, Michael Winiker, Anca-Teodora Antonino, Domenico Galasso

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Letters to the Editor

Quality assessment in gastroenterological research: publication rates of meta-analyses

Daryl Ramai, Mohamed Barakat, Andrew Ofosu, Amaninder Dhaliwal, Douglas G. Adler

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Nuances in diagnosis and management of acute esophageal necrosis

Grigoriy E. Gurvits

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Authors’ reply

Emanuel Dias, João Santos-Antunes, Guilherme Macedo

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Special Article

Invited Reviews

Review Articles

Original Articles

Case Report

Images of the Month

Letters to the Editor