David Carr-Locke Endoscopy Clinic

How Do You Treat a Carcinoid in the Duodenum? A lack of treatment guidelines for duodenal carcinoids, owing to inconsistent data, makes managing these cases challenging.
Clinical Case, July 15, 2013
A Unique Presentation of Black Esophagus A potentially serious condition could easily have been missed without the right diagnostic tests.
Clinical Case, February 14, 2013
When Brunner Glands Are Not So Innocent Two cases of Brunner gland tumors are reported in which both patients present with melena and anemia, but one case is benign and the other is malignant.
Clinical Case, December 17, 2012
Caroli Disease: When Your Ducts Aren't in a Row The investigation of a patient with vague symptoms of epigastric pain and fever reveals an unusual congenital disorder.
Clinical Case, May 02, 2012
Challenges in Diagnosing Biliary Stricture Diagnosis and staging of biliary tumors is difficult despite advances in imaging modalities. Can probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy improve the diagnosis of indeterminate biliary strictures?
Clinical Case, February 27, 2012
Giant Condyloma of Buschke-Lowenstein: An Atypical Case An uncommonly aggressive case of giant condyloma of Buschke-Lowenstein is found in an atypical patient.
Clinical Case, January 05, 2012
Bronchoesophageal Fistula From Self-Induced Vomiting This unusual case study is supplemented with CT and endoscopy images.
Clinical Case, May 25, 2011
A Girl With a Gastric Trichobezoar This unusual cause of epigastric pain in children requires multidisciplinary treatment.
Clinical Case, March 22, 2011
Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia: An Ongoing Case This case describes a typical presentation of a patient with gastric antral vascular ectasia and the treatment course.
Clinical Case, January 11, 2011
Kaposi's Sarcoma of the Upper GI Tract Causing Severe Anemia This case demonstrates that a seemingly asymptomatic patient may have extensive involvement of Kaposi's sarcoma in the gastrointestinal tract.
Clinical Case, August 24, 2010
Acute Herpetic Esophagitis in an Immunocompetent Woman This clinical case demonstrates how easily a diagnosis of herpetic esophagitis can be overlooked.
Clinical Case, May 14, 2010
The Mysteriously Bleeding Ileostomy Even with all the high-tech tools at our disposal, sometimes the naked eye is the sharpest.
Clinical Case, January 20, 2010
Primary Amelanotic Malignant Melanoma of the Esophagus A case of primary amelanotic malignant melanoma of the esophagus that presented as an esophageal mass in a 66-year-old woman is discussed.
Clinical Case, November 19, 2009
Covered Metal Stents Straight-Arm Benign Biliary Stricture Benign biliary strictures secondary to chronic pancreatitis can prove intractable to endoscopic management, but use of covered, removable metal stents is straightening out this therapeutic problem.
Clinical Case, August 10, 2009
Not All Leaking Bile Ducts Are Bile Leaks A patient presents with persistent bilious drainage from a percutaneous right upper quadrant abdominal drain placed 1 month ago during an open cholecystectomy. Extensive bile leak or something else?
Clinical Case, February 27, 2009
Closure of Endoscopic Perforations With Endoscopic Clips Three cases of perforation identified at the time of endoscopy that were successfully closed with endoscopic clips are described.
December 16, 2002
Amyloidosis and Occult GI Bleeding This patient with end-stage renal disease was admitted with abdominal pain, dark stool, and hematocrit drop.
September 01, 2002
Penetrating Trauma in the Rectum This is the first report of a disposable endoscopic clip used for closure of a deeply penetrating injury to the rectum.
March 28, 2002
Giant Colonic Lipoma This obese 42-year-old woman presented to the ED with intermittent abdominal cramping of 4 weeks' duration.
February 13, 2002
David Carr-Locke Endoscopy Clinic - Pancreatic Duct Disruption This 35-year-old woman with a history of chronic pancreatitis secondary to alcohol use presented with diffuse abdominal discomfort and ascites.
November 13, 2001

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