A combination of stool, blood, and urine tests may be needed in the evaluation of chronic diarrhea; in addition, a number of endoscopic and x-ray studies are frequently required.
An endoscopic technique has been pioneered by plastic surgeons.
Does the procedure, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography give you acute pancreatitis?
Endoscopic orbital decompression may be used to treat disfiguring proptosis or sight threatening optic nerve compression in patients with thyroid eye disease.
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and sphincterotomy may be necessary in the case of gallstone pancreatitis, even in the acute phase of the illness.
Endoscopic surgery is intended to leave smaller, less noticeable scars than the older method.
Endoscopic tests such as a colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy may be performed.
Endoscopic ultrasound appeared to be reliable for both local tumor and lymph node staging of oesophageal cancer.
Figure 3 shows the endoscopic view of the pharyngeal pouch at the bottom of the picture with contracted cricopharyngeal ring at the top.
Fluoroscopy is also used to help guide catheters into place in the heart during cardiac catheterization or to guide an endoscope during endoscopic surgery.
In another study of 15 patients endoscopic ultrasound showed better accuracy than CT scanning for staging the disease.
In these cases, endoscopic removal can carry an unacceptably high risk of bleeding or perforation.
Kim et al additionally utilized endoscopic ultrasound to evaluate the deep margins of 4 colonic lipomas.
More recently, several authors have proposed methods of ensuring safe endoscopic removal colonic lipomas.
Our objective was to determine the efficacy of aggressive endoscopic resection of IP.
Patients who have had endoscopic surgery usually have less intense pain, discomfort, and swelling.
Some patients required additional surgery for voice -- usually endoscopic dilation.
Standard endoscopic surveillance to date has not been always accurate in the diagnosis of rejection.
Surgical and endoscopic findings confirmed the presence of the obstruction in all the other 9 patients.
The impact of endoscopic ultrasonography on the therapeutic decision has not yet been evaluated.
The second patient had undergone an emergency resection of a bulky tumor leaking into the left chest following endoscopic dilatation.
The tumor was completely excised by functional endoscopic sinus surgery on 12th August 1999.
They will consist of some form of endoscopic examination (either sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy ), often followed by a barium enema radiological examination.
This is most commonly achieved by endoscopic balloon dilatation with surgical myotomy reserved for endoscopic failures.
This procedure is called Endoscopic Third Ventriculstomy (ETV).
This selective destruction of certain parts of the sympathetic chain is called Endoscopic Transthoracic sympathectomy or ETS.
This selective destruction of certain parts of the sympathetic chain is called Endoscopic Transthoracic Sympathectomy or ETS.
Tissue specimens collected during routine endoscopic or surgical procedures were cut and stained with haematoxylin and eosin.
When symptoms continue even after treatment, endoscopic tests such as a colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy may be performed.