Volume 26, No 4 (2013) | Annals of Gastroenterology

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Volume 26, No 4 (2013)

Published: 2013-09-30

Table of contents

Editorial (by invitation only)

Polyethylene glycol and bisacodyl for colonoscopy: has the time arrived?

Cesare Hassan, Cristina Bucci, Angelo Zullo, Riccardo Marmo

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Invited Reviews

Distinction between patients with non-erosive reflux disease and functional heartburn

Maria Giacchino, Vincenzo Savarino, Edoardo Savarino

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Investigation of extraesophageal gastroesophageal reflux disease

Emmanouela Tsoukali, Daniel Sifrim

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Manipulating bone disease in inflammatory bowel disease patients

Pal Miheller, Peter Laszlo Lakatos, Peter L. Lakatos

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Recurrence of hepatitis C after liver transplantation

Carmen Vinaixa, Angel Rubin, Victoria Aguilera, Marina Berenguer

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Original Articles

Clinical characteristics in patients with non-cardiac chest pain could favor gastroesophageal reflux disease diagnosis

Anastasios Karlaftis, George Karamanolis, Konstantinos Triantafyllou, Demetrios Polymeros, Asimina Gaglia, Maria Triantafyllou, Ioannis S. Papanikolaou, Spyros D. Ladas

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Low-volume polyethylene glycol and bisacodyl for bowel preparation prior to colonoscopy: a meta-analysis

Robert E. Clark, Jonathan D. Godfrey, Abhishek Choudhary, Imran Ashraf, Michelle L. Matteson, Matthew L. Bechtold

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Hyperbilirubinemia as a predictor of gangrenous/perforated appendicitis: a prospective study

Poras Chaudhary, Ajay Kumar, Neeraj Saxena, Upendra C. Biswal

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Treatment of liver abscess: prospective randomized comparison of catheter drainage and needle aspiration

Sukhjeet Singh, Poras Chaudhary, Neeraj Saxena, Sachin Khandelwal, Deva Datta Poddar, Upendra C. Biswal

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No 72-hour pathological boundary for safe early laparoscopic cholecystectomy in acute cholecystitis: a clinicopathological study

Rachel M. Gomes, Niraj T. Mehta, Vanesha Varik, Nilesh H. Doctor

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Surgical resection improves survival in pancreatic cancer patients without vascular invasion- a population based study

Subhankar Chakraborty, Shailender Singh

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Images of the Month

Narrow band imaging appearance of gastric metastasis from malignant melanoma

Surinder S. Rana, Vinita Chaudhary, Deepak K. Bhasin

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Jejunal diverticulosis

Athanasios D. Sioulas, Dimitrios Polymeros, Dimitrios Beis, Konstantinos Triantafyllou

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Mucosal healing in ulcerative colitis: surveillance or colectomy?

Gianluca Andrisani, Alfredo Papa, Luisa Guidi, Alessandro Armuzzi

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Case Reports

Synchronous gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) and other primary neoplasms of gastrointestinal tract: report of two cases

Ramneet Kaur, Sunita Bhalla, Samiran Nundy, Sunila Jain

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Gastric wall abscess presenting as thoracic pain: rare presentation of an old disease

Joaquin Valle Alonso, Juan Jose de la Fuente Carillo, Manuel Angel Gutierrez Solis, Francisco Javier Vara Morate, Daniel JosÃ© LÃ³pez Ruiz

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Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in extrahepatic portal venous obstruction

George Sarin Zacharia, Kavitha Rangan, Sunilkumar Kandiyil, Varghese Thomas

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Clinical Opinions

Looking forwards: not necessarily the best in capsule endoscopy?

Anastasios Koulaouzidis, Konstantinos J. Dabos

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Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma: long-term follow up, efficacy and prognostic factors

Dimitrios K. Filippiadis, Nikolaos L. Kelekis

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Letter to the Editor

Gastric outlet obstruction secondary to adult gastric antral web

Rachel M. Gomes, Jayesh Kudchadkar, Harish Peshwe, Trupti Gundawar

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Two overlapping uncovered metallic stents for duodenal obstruction due to primary lymphoma

Mohammed Amine Benatta, Ariane Desjeux, Jean-Charles Grimaud

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Agitation as the only symptom of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis in a patient with Crohn's disease

Maria Kosmidou, Ioannis Vagias, Konstantinos H. Katsanos, Epameinondas V. Tsianos

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Anorectal avulsion: report of a rare case of rectal injury

Rachel M. Gomes, Jayesh Kudchadkar, Edwin Araujo, Trupti Gundawar

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A rare cause of biliary obstruction and pancreatitis

Yang Liu, Paul B. Lamb, Michael Piesman

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