Endoscopic Therapy for Barrett's Esophagus (eBook)

Chapter 1 – New technologies for imaging of Barrett's esophagus
Herbert C Wolfsen, MD and Michael B Wallace, MD, MPH

Chapter 2 – Argon plasma coagulation in Barrett's esophagus: the most widely available technique
Stephen E Attwood, MD, FRCSI and Suvadip Chatterjee, MB, MRCP

Chapter 3 – Radiofrequency ablation for eradication of Barrett's esophagus: a description of the endoscopic technique, its clinical results and future prospects
Roos E Pouw, MD and Jacques JGHM Bergman, MD, PhD

Chapter 4 – Decision making in ablation: disease, patients and institutional factors
Gary W Falk, MD, MS

Chapter 5 – Multipolar electrocoagulation (MPEC): an early, widely available technique
V Raman Muthusamy, MD and Pratteek Sharma, MD

Chapter 6 – Endoscopic mucosal resection in Barrett's esophagus: endoscopic surgery
Kenneth K Wang, MD and Yutaka Tomazawa, MD

Chapter 7 – Combination – multimodal therapy
Oliver Pech, MD, Hendrick Manner, MD and Christian Ell, MD

Chapter 8 – Photodynamic therapy (PDT): the best validated technique
V Raman Muthusamy, MD and Kenneth J Chang, MD

Chapter 9 – Cryoablation of Barrett's esophagus
M J Krier, MD and Pankaj J Pasricha, MD

Chapter 10 – Cost-effectiveness of endoscopic therapy for Barrett's esophagus
Patrick Yachimski, MD, MPH and Chin Hur, MD, MPH