Endoscopic Ultrasonography - New Developments and Interesting Trends

M. S. Bhutani

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Endoscopy 2004; 36(11): 950-956
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-825965

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Endoscopic Ultrasonography - New Developments and Interesting Trends

M. S. Bhutani¹

¹Center for Endoscopic Ultrasound, Center for Endoscopic Research, Training and Innovation, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA

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The Digestive Disease Week meeting held in New Orleans in May 2004 was an interesting and rewarding one for research on endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS). This review discusses and comments on a few selected abstracts in detail; due to space limitations, a wide variety of other interesting abstracts are only listed under subject headings in the references.

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