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Special Issue introduction:

1. Forward: a new kind of endoscopists for advanced therapeutic endoscopy

2. A minimal invasive approach for biliary diseases

2.1 How to access common bile duct: endoscopic sphincterotomy, precut
sphincterotomy, balloon dilation, ERCP in alterated anatomy

2.2 How to remove gallstones: balloon, dormie basket, lithotripsy
2.3 Diagnosis and treatment of malignancies: biopsy, cytology, cholangioscopy,
stenting

2.4 Post-surgical complications: leakage, benign stenosis, after liver transplantation
2.5 EUS approach : diagnosis and treatment:
- EUS assessment of bile duct and pancreas
- CBD approach in case of ERCP failure
- Stenting

- EUS cholecystostomy
2.6 Prevention of endoscopic complications

3. Endoscopic treatment of pancreatic diseases

3.1 Endoscopic treatment of acute pancreatitis:
- When emergency papillotomy is useful
- Pancreatic drainage

- Necrosectomy
3.2 Endoscopic treatment of chronic pancreatitis
3.3 EUS diagnosis for pancreatic diseases:

- diagnosis and assessment of tumors
- cytology and biopsy
- pCLe confocal for pancreatic cysts
3.4 Therapeutic EUS:
- Drainage

- Stenting
- Radio frequence ablation