Key Points • Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) has improved considerably in the past years through development of real-time EUS elastography, contrast-enhanced EUS and fusion EUS imaging. • Real-time EUS elastography provides…
Key Points • Both radial or linear echoendoscopes can be used for evaluation and staging of esophageal and gastric cancer. • The role of EUS is limited in patients with…
Key Points • Criteria exist to differentiate benign from malignant mediastinal lymph nodes, but used alone these criteria are not sufficiently accurate. Endoscopic ultrasonography-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS FNA) is required…
Esophagus Obtaining high-quality images of the esophageal wall is one of the more difficult tasks that an endosonographer will encounter. One has to deal with the “catch 22” that pits…
Key Points • The primary indications for endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) are cancer diagnosis and staging, assessment (usually combined with EUS fine-needle aspiration [FNA]) of lymph nodes, and evaluation of pancreatic…
Key Points • EUS is an advanced endoscopic procedure that is operator dependent, and training in a structured program is required for the development of cognitive, technical, and integrative skills…
Laparoscopic retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND) was initially described by Rukstalis and Chodak in 1992. Laparoscopic RPLND was used for staging purposes; however, at select centers, laparoscopic RPLND has evolved…
The primary objectives when dealing with newly diagnosed penile cancer are complete resection of the primary penile tumor and assessment of the inguinal and pelvic lymph nodes (LNs). The primary…
Introduction Penile surgery for Peyronie disease is continually evolving. Since the publication of the last edition of this surgical atlas, there has been a paradigm shift in our approach to…
