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World J Gastrointest Endosc. Jun 10, 2015; 7(6): 652-658
Published online Jun 10, 2015. doi: 10.4253/wjge.v7.i6.652
Published online Jun 10, 2015. doi: 10.4253/wjge.v7.i6.652
Role of double-balloon enteroscopy in malignant small bowel tumors
Enrique Pérez-Cuadrado Robles, Pilar Esteban Delgado, Paloma Bebia Conesa, Blanca Martínez Andrés, José Luis Rodrigo Agudo, Silvia Chacón Martínez, Enrique Pérez-Cuadrado Martínez, Department of Gastroenterology, Morales Meseguer Hospital, 30008 Murcia, Spain
Milivoj Franulic Guggiana, Department of Radiology, Morales Meseguer Hospital, 30008 Murcia, Spain
Eduardo Alcaraz Mateos, Department of Pathology, Morales Meseguer Hospital, 30008 Murcia, Spain
Mariana Fernández Caballero, Department of Hematology and Oncology, Morales Meseguer Hospital, 30008 Murcia, Spain
Rafael Latorre, Department of Anatomy, University of Murcia, 30100 Espinardo, Spain
Federico Soria, Centre Jesus Usón, 10071 Cáceres, Spain
Juan Manuel Herrerías Gutiérrez, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, 41009 Sevilla, Spain
Author contributions: Pérez-Cuadrado Robles E, Esteban Delgado P and Bebia Conesa P contributed equally to this work; Martínez Andrés B, Franulic Guggiana M, Alcaraz Mateos E and Fernández Caballero M designed and performed the research; Rodrigo Agudo JL and Chacón Martínez S analyzed the data; Latorre R, Soria F, Herrerías Gutiérrez JM and Pérez-Cuadrado Martínez E wrote the paper.
Ethics approval: This study was a retrospective and descriptive study without prospective interventions or control group. Thus, we have not considered necessary to submit the manuscript to the Institutional Review Board.
Informed consent: All patients provided written consent to undergo DBE under general anesthesia or deep sedation. However, in this retrospective study of 627 patients with a long span of time (2004-2014) the informed consent to be enrolled in the study was waived. All data are anonymized and there were no prospective interventions.
Conflict-of-interest: None to declare.
Data sharing: Technical appendix, statistical code, and dataset available from the corresponding author at kikemurcia@gmail.com. Consent was not obtained but the presented data are anonymized and risk of identification is low.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Enrique Pérez-Cuadrado Robles, MD, Department of Gastroenterology, Morales Meseguer Hospital, Av Marques de los Velez, 30008 Murcia, Spain. kikemurcia@gmail.com
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Received: November 26, 2014
Peer-review started: November 26, 2014
First decision: December 12, 2014
Revised: January 3, 2015
Accepted: March 16, 2015
Article in press: March 18, 2015
Published online: June 10, 2015
Peer-review started: November 26, 2014
First decision: December 12, 2014
Revised: January 3, 2015
Accepted: March 16, 2015
Article in press: March 18, 2015
Published online: June 10, 2015
Core Tip
Core tip: Malignant small bowel tumors (MSBT) are a heterogeneous and relatively rare group of neoplasms. Double balloon enteroscopy (DBE) may have a critical role in the management of MSBT because of its diagnosis and therapeutic capabilities. DBE procedure may delay or avoid emergency surgery, clarifying the tumor location and characteristics. We have assessed DBE impact in these lesions in a large series of patients of a single referral center.