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J Gastroenterol Dig Dis 2017 | Volume 2, Issue 3
World Gastroenterological &
Gastroenterology and Endoscopy
October 30-31, 2017 | Toronto, Canada
World Congress on
Endoscopy Ultrasound from radial to Linear, breaking paradigm
Dervis Bandres MG
Centro Medico Docente la Trinidad, Venezuela
Since the introduction of Endoscopy ultrasound (EUS) in
the clinical practice at the beginning 0f 80Th , the radial
echo endoscope(r-EUS) was used as diagnostic technique
in benign and malignant Gastrointestinal lesions for many
years, but its lack to take samples for cytology of sub
epithelial or extramural tumors, pancreas or lymph node,
brought in to the field the curvilinear EUS(c-EUS) which
provide an accurate view of the needle tract; These different
applications created a false paradigm that all GI service
should have both scopes, one r-EUS for diagnostic and one
c-EUS for Fine needle aspiration ( FNA) and therapeutic,
“these necessities” created a big economical problem to
undeveloped countries making almost impossible to acquire
those scopes. This is why since 1990, we started to use
c-EUS not only to performed FNA but also as a diagnostic
technique in upper, and lower GI tract but also in biliary,
liver and pancreatic diseases. In this presentation I will give
a resume of our experience using c-EUS as a multipurpose
scopeWhich is a cost-benefit option for all GI Units meaning
huge resources saving.
Speaker Biography
Dervis Bandres is Vicepresident of Venezuelan Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Society and
he is Chief of Endoscopy Ultrasound section and director of EUS fellow program at
Central University of Venezuela, Centro Medico Docente La Trinidad Academic Centre,
since has attended more than National Congresses and meetings related to
Gastroenterology. He has been serving as Gastrointestinal Endoscopy reviewer since
2009 and he is an active member of the Venezuelan Association of Ultrasound in
Medicine since 1988.
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