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Multiple Strictures of Small Intestine: Is It a Crohn’s Disease?

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Intrahepatic bile duct foreign body with cholangitis after pylorus preserving pancreatoduodenectomy: Is it a fish bone?

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Endoscopic versus surgical step-up approach for infected necrotizing pancreatitis (ExTENSION): long-term follow-up of a randomized trial

Previous randomized trials, including the TENSION trial, demonstrated that the endoscopic step-up approach might be preferred over the surgical step-up approach in patients with infected necrotizing pancreatitis based on favorable short-term outcomes. … Continue reading

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Too familiar to be a coincidence? A remarkable headache

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Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Abdomen”

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Advocacy for Equity in Transplantation Access for Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease: How Research Changed Medi-Cal Policy

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NOTCH-YAP1/TEAD-DNMT1 axis drives hepatocyte reprogramming into intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma

We identify a subset of intrahepatic bile duct cancers to originate from hepatocytes instead of bile duct cells, and identify the epigenetic molecular basis of this fatal disease. Continue reading

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Active eradication of Helicobacter pylori within organized massive screening might improve survival of gastric cancer patients

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Prevalence of Young-Onset Colorectal Neoplasia: A Time to Decrease the Starting Age for Screening?

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OPIOID EXPOSURE DIFFERENTIALLY IMPACTS ESOPHAGEAL BODY CONTRACTION OVER THE LOWER ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER

Chronic opioid use is associated with spastic disorders of the esophageal body, but not disorders of the esophagogastric junction. Continue reading

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