Year 2015 / Volume 107 / Number 8
Editorial
A new open door for endoscopic ultrasound (EUS); the colon

467-468

Julio Iglesias-García and J. Enrique Domínguez-Muñoz

Abstract
Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is a minimally invasive procedure with the ability to evaluate both gastrointestinal and extra-in- testinal diseases (1,2). The use of high-frequency sound waves provides with the capability for obtaining detailed images of the lining and walls of our digestive tract and nearby organs such as the pancreas, the liver, bile system, suprarenal glands, the lung, and lymph nodes from both mediastinum and intra-abdominal, among others (1,2). In fact, EUS is considered the best tool, for instance, in the evaluation of chronic pancreatitis (3), pancreatic solid and cystic lesions (4), the staging of esophageal and gas- tric cancer, the evaluation of common bile duct and gallbladder or for the evaluation of mediastinal lesions like lung cancer (5).
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