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Cost of Detecting Malignant Lesions by Endoscopy in 2741 Primary Care Dyspeptic Patients Without Alarm Symptoms
Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology , 07/10/09

Vakil N et al. - Primary care dyspeptic patients without alarm symptoms rarely have serious underlying conditions at endoscopy. The costs associated with diagnosing an occult malignancy are large, but an age cut-off of 50 years for early endoscopy provides the best assurance that an occult malignancy will not be missed.

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A second-look endoscopy after endoscopic submucosal dissection for gastric epithelial neoplasm may be unnecessary: a retrospective analysis of postendoscopic submucosal dissection bleeding
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 11/20/09 Relevance Score: 91%

Endoscopic Ablation Therapy: Imaging and Advanced Technology in Action
Gastroenterology, 10/06/09 Relevance Score: 89%

Pseudomelanosis Duodeni: An Unusual Finding From Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 11/04/09 Relevance Score: 87%

Capsule endoscopy for the small bowel in juvenile polyposis syndrome
Endoscopy, 10/30/09 Relevance Score: 87%

Interventional Endoscopic Ultrasound: The Next Frontier in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 10/20/09 Relevance Score: 87%