Vol. 22 No. 1: March 2013

Editorial

To Scope or to Test for Colorectal Cancer Screening?

Ioan Sporea, Alina Popescu

11-12
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Images of the Issue

Massive Gastrointestinal Bleeding During the Course of Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia

Ayse Salihoglu, Ibrahim Hatemi, Tuba Elif Senel, Hilal Aki, Burhan Ferhanoglu

7
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Giant Esophageal Lipoma Presenting with Gastroesophageal Reux Symptoms

Suna Yapali, Nevin Oruc, Mustafa Harman, Ahmet Aydin

8
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A Case of Lansoprazole-Associated Collagenous Colitis with Longitudinal Ulcer

Tomoyuki Kitagawa, Koichiro Sato, Yuki Yokouchi, Kenji Tominaga, Sayo Ito, Iruru Maetani

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Chronic Haematochezia Caused by Diffuse Cavernous Haemangioma of the Rectum

Ruchit Sood, Deepika Chilkunda, John Brittenden, Deven Vani

10
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Original Article

Detection of Endoscopic and Histological Inflammation after an Attack of Colonic Diverticulitis is Associated with Higher Diverticulitis Recurrence

Antonio Tursi, Walter Elisei, Gian Marco Giorgetti, Cosimo Damiano Inchingolo, Rosanna Nenna, Marcello Picchio, Giovanni Brandimarte

13-19
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Comparison of Quantiferon-TB Gold versus Tuberculin Skin Test for Tuberculosis Screening in Inammatory Bowel Disease Patients

Gianluca Andrisani, Alessandro Armuzzi, Alfredo Papa, Manuela Marzo, Carla Felice, Daniela Pugliese, Italo De Vitis, Gian Lodovico Rapaccini, Luisa Guidi

21-25
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Use of Quantitative Serum HBsAg for Optimization of Therapy in Chronic Hepatitis B Patients Treated with Pegylated Interferon Alfa-2a: a Romanian Cohort Study

Valeriu I. Gheorghita, Florin Alexandru Caruntu, Manuela Curescu, Ioana Olaru, Monica Nicoleta Radu, Gabriel Colltan, Adrian Streinu-Cercel

27-32
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Endoscopic Procedures in Patients under Clopidogrel/Dual Antiplatelet Therapy: To Do or Not to Do?

Ahmed Abdel Samie, Lorenz Theilmann

33-36
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5-Fluorouracil Potentiates the Anti-Cancer Effect of Oxaliplatin on Colo320 Colorectal Adenocarcinoma Cells

Ioana Berindan-Neagoe, Cornelia Braicu, Valentina Pileczki, Roxana Cojocneanu Petric, Nicolae Miron, Ovidiu Balacescu, Dana Iancu, Tudor Ciuleanu

37-43
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Assessment of Diusion-Weighted MRI and 18F-Fluoro- Deoxyglucose PET/CT in Monitoring Early Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Adenocarcinoma of the Esophagogastric Junction

Marc-André Weber, Karen Bender, Carl Christian von Gall, Annika Stange, Katharina Grünberg, Katja Ott, Uwe Haberkorn, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Christian Zechmann

45-52
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Long Term Outcome Following Surgical Treatment for Distal Gastric Cancer

Lucian Mocan, Claudiu Tomus, Dana Bartos, Florin Zaharie, Ilie Ioana, Adrian Bartos, Cosmin Puia, Alexandru Necula, Teodora Mocan, Cornel Iancu

53-58
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Pain Palliation by Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Celiac Plexus Neurolysis in Patients with Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer

Andrada Seicean, Calin Cainap, Iulia Gulei, Marcel Tantau, Radu Seicean

59-64
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Reviews

Low Bioavailability and Traditional Systemic Steroids in IBD: Can the Former Take Over the Latter?

Federica Fascì Spurio, Annalisa Aratari, Giovanna Margagnoni, Valeria Clemente, Alessandra Moretti, Claudio Papi

65-71
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Are There any Alternative Methods to Hepatic Venous Pressure Gradient in Portal Hypertension Assessment?

Bogdan Procopet, Marcel Tantau, Christophe Bureau

73-78
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Dental Treatment as a Risk Factor for Hepatitis B and C Viral Infection. A Review of the Recent Literature

Nima Mahboobi, Stephen R. Porter, Peter Karayiannis, Seyed-Moayed Alavian

79-86
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Case Reports

A Case of Fatal Idiopathic Enteritis and Multiple Opportunistic Infections Associated with Dendritic Cell Deficiencies

James D. Lord, Janice Chen, Richard A. Kozarek

87-91
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Gastric Carcinoids and Therapeutic Options. Case Report and Review of the Literature

Daniela Dobru, Alina Boeriu, Simona Mocan, Ofelia Pascarenco, Cristian Boeriu, Calin Molnar

93-96
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Case series

Unknown Complicated Celiac Disease as an Unexpected Finding in Patients Investigated with Capsule Endoscopy for Crohn’s Disease. A Case Series

Lidia Ciobanu, Oliviu Pascu, Silviu Iobagiu, Dana Damian, Eugen Dumitru, Marcel Tantau

97-100
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Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus with Dual Autoimmune Mechanism Related to Pegylated Interferon and Ribavirin Treatment for Chronic HCV Hepatitis

Cristina Popescu, Gabriel-Adrian Popescu, Victoria Arama

101-104
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Technique/Case series

Radiofrequency Ablation of Splenic Tumors: a Case Series

Quanda Liu, Yang Song, Ningxin Zhou, Xiaoya Xu, Zhifei Wang

105-108
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Letters

Virtual colonoscopy is unlikely to reduce the need for optical colonoscopy

Muhammed Thoufeeq

109-112
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Reply

Mark Benson, Patrick Pfau

109-112
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Idiopathic hepatitis B surface antibody seroreversion after pegylated interferon alpha-2a therapy

Donald N. Tsynman, Rene Rivera, Benedict Maliakkal

109-112
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Gastric bezoars – diagnostic and therapeutic challenges

Catalina Mihai, Bogdan Mihai, Vasile Drug, Cristina Cijevschi Prelipcean

109-112
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Outcome of hemodialysis patients with occult hepatitis B virus infection at a 4 year follow-up

Amitis Ramezani, Mohammad Banifazl, Ali Eslamifar, Farrokhlagha Ahmadi, Effat Razeghi, Arezoo Aghakhani

109-112
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