Interventional Upper Endoscopy: the Pediatric Perspective

Overview

Journal Curr Gastroenterol Rep

Specialty Gastroenterology

Date 2006 Nov 16

PMID 17105682

Authors

Steven Liu

Petar Mamula

Chris A Liacouras

Affiliations

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Abstract

Pediatric endoscopy has evolved from a purely observational modality into one with the potential for many therapeutic applications. Common therapeutic uses of endoscopy in children now include treatment of variceal bleeds and foreign body retrieval and newer procedures such as endoluminal gastroplication and endoscopic pyloromyotomy. Continuing research in pediatric endoscopy will allow pediatric gastroenterologists to perfect existing interventional endoscopic techniques and to learn to perform new ones.

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