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Endoscopy 2019; 51(10): 973-975
DOI: 10.1055/a-0959-1513
Masters of endoscopy
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How I do a diagnostic EUS

Angels Ginès
1   Endoscopy Unit, Institut Clínic de Malalties Digestives i Metabòliques (ICMDM) Hospital Clínic, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Charles J. Lightdale
2   Department of Medicine, Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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15 July 2019 (online)

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This article is being published jointly in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Endoscopy. Copyright © 2019 by the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Georg Thieme Verlag KG

Some 30 years ago, a revolutionary advance in endoscopy was accomplished by joining an endoscope with a US probe, introducing the new era of EUS. EUS allows GI endoscopists not just to see the inner surface of the GI tract, but also to image in real time the full thickness of the GI tract wall and adjacent structures and organs.