Modified endoscopic vacuum therapy: Are we ready for prime time?

Affiliations

¹ Basil I. Hirschowitz Endoscopic Center of Excellence, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
² Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women's Hospital - Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Endoscopy Unit, Gastrointestinal Department, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁴ Surgery Division, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil.

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Sergio A Sánchez-Luna et al. Gastrointest Endosc. 2022 Jun.

. 2022 Jun;95(6):1281-1282.

doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2021.12.049.

¹ Basil I. Hirschowitz Endoscopic Center of Excellence, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
² Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women's Hospital - Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Endoscopy Unit, Gastrointestinal Department, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁴ Surgery Division, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil.

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Jung DH, Park JC. Jung DH, et al. Gastrointest Endosc. 2022 Jun;95(6):1282-1283. doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2022.02.037. Gastrointest Endosc. 2022. PMID: 35589209 No abstract available.

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