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Endotherapy in Biliopancreatic Diseases: ERCP Meets EUS

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Intraductal ultrasound (IDUS) provides real-time, cross-sectional imaging of pancreatobiliary ducts, walls, and surrounding structures during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). The high-frequency ultrasound (12–30 MHz) used offers a very high image quality within approximately 2-cm range of radius, useful for evaluation of biliopancreatic disease, both benign and malignant. The high sensitivity is applied in the evaluation of suspicious choledocholithiasis and neoplasms, in the distinction between benign and malignant bile duct strictures, and to assess tumor extension and invasion depth. IDUS is a quick procedure, safe, and well tolerated by the patients, without major complication or adverse events.

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  1. Gastroenterology Unit, AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza, Molinette Hospital, Turin, Italy

    Claudio Giovanni De Angelis, Ludovica Venezia & Pablo Cortegoso Valdivia

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  1. Digestive and Interventional Endoscopy Unit, Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Piazza dell’Ospedale Maggiore, Milano, Italy

    Massimiliano Mutignani

  2. Hepatologie und Endokrinologie, Abteilung für Gastroenterologie, Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, Auerbachstraße, Stuttgart, Germany

    Jörg G. Albert

  3. Department of Gastroenterology, Azienda USL di Forlì-Cesena, Bologna, Italy

    Carlo Fabbri

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De Angelis, C.G., Venezia, L., Cortegoso Valdivia, P. (2020). Intraductal US. In: Mutignani, M., Albert, J.G., Fabbri, C. (eds) Endotherapy in Biliopancreatic Diseases: ERCP Meets EUS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42569-2_30

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