Argon plasma coagulation and the future applications for dual-mode endoscopic probes

Reviews in Gastroenterological Disorders

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-12

  Canady, Jerome ^a   Wiley, Kimberly ^a   Ravo, Biagio ^b  

^a Jerome Canady Institute for Advanced Biological and Technical Sciences   (United States)

^b Rome American Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Argon plasma coagulation; Electrocautery; Endoscopic probes; GI bleeding; Polyps; Radiation proctitis; Watermelon stomach

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; FORMALDEHYDE; MESALAZINE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID; SUCRALFATE;

ANASTOMOSIS; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; BALLOON DILATATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON DISEASE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FISTULA; EARLY CANCER; ELECTROSURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC MUCOSAL RESECTION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL DYSPLASIA; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HUMAN; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEODYMIUM LASER; PEPTIC ULCER BLEEDING; POLYPECTOMY; PROCTITIS; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; SCLEROTHERAPY; STOMACH DISEASE; SURGEON; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VARICOSIS;

ARGON; BALLOON DILATATION; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ENDOSCOPES, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GASTRIC ANTRAL VASCULAR ECTASIA; HUMANS; INTESTINAL POLYPS; POLYPS; PROCTITIS; SCLEROTHERAPY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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