Massimo Tonolini
Editor

2016

During the last decades, digestive endoscopy significantly developed not only as a diagnostic technique but also in its operative-therapeutic applications. Endoscopy increasingly has replaced surgery and previous radiological approaches in a variety of conditions, which up to some years ago required a surgical approach, such as endoscopic submucosal dissection of intramucosal tumors or endoscopic drainage of pseudocysts. In the diagnostic field, for instance, fine needle aspiration (FNA) of pancreatic masses is currently performed under echoendoscopy (EUS), whereas until a few years ago it required CT or ultrasound guide.