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Endoscopy 2000; 32(2): 146-152
DOI: 10.1055/s-2000-90
State-of-the-Art Review
Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart ·New York

Endoscopic Ultrasonography

A. Chak
  • University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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31 December 2000 (online)

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Endosonography is primarily a diagnostic imaging modality, but new therapeutic applications are being developed. Miniprobe technology (ultrasound catheter probes) has led to new clinical applications. The staging of gastrointestinal cancers remains the major accepted indication for endosonography. Other conditions, such as chronic pancreatitis, portal hypertension, and inflammatory bowel diseases, are also being evaluated with endosonographic imaging.

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