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Endoscopy Official Organ of the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) and affiliated societies Editor-In-Chief Advisory Board Former Editors Peter D. Siersema, The Netherlands Meinhard Classen, Germany Meinhard Classen, Germany Joseph E. Geenen, USA Ludwig Demling †, Germany Glen Lehman, USA Thomas Rösch, Germany Nib Soehendra, Germany Co-Editors-in-Chief Hiroaki Suzuki, Japan Michael Bretthauer, Norway Guido N. J. Tytgat, The Netherlands Mário Dinis-Ribeiro, Portugal Associate Editor Thierry Ponchon, France Co-Editors Editorial Board Raf Bisschops, Belgium Lars Aabakken, Norway Helmut Messmann, Germany Michael J. Bourke, Australia Nadir Arber, Israel Sri Misra, India Wai Yan Philip Chiu, Hong Kong Miguel Areia, Portugal Alan Moss, Australia Mouen A. Khashab, USA Marianna Arvanitakis, Belgium Bertrand Napoleon, France René Laugier, France Amol Bapaye, India Horst Neuhaus, Germany Klaus Mönkemüller, USA Todd Baron, USA Helmut Neumann, Germany Maria Pellise, Spain Marc Barthet, France Ichiro Oda, Japan Heiko Pohl, USA Peter Bauerfeind, Switzerland Ioannis Papanikolaou, Greece Marcin Polkowski, Poland Jacques Bergman, Netherlands Adolfo Parra-Blanco, Chile William R. Brugge, USA Oliver Pech, Germany Anthoni Castells, Spain Manuel Perez-Miranda, Spain Managing Editor Mihai Ciocirlan, Romania Krish Ragunath, UK Hilary Hamilton-Gibbs, Germany Emmanuel Coron, France Miguel Angel Ramirez Luna, Mexico Guido Costamagna, Italy Colin Rees, UK Pierre Deprez, Belgium Jaroslaw Regula, Poland Jacques Devière, Belgium Carla Rolanda, Portugal Chief Copy Editor Jean Marc Dumonceau, Argentina Luis Sabbagh, Colombia Teresa Brady, UK James East, UK Paulo Sakai, Brazil Pietro Fusaroli, Italy Dong-Wan Seo, Korea Marc Giovannini, France Rajvinder Singh, Australia Cesare Hassan, Italy Ilaria Tarantino, Italy Editorial Assistants David Hewett, UK Pier Alberto Testoni, Italy Françoise Heidenreich, Germany Øyvind Holme, Norway Ervin Toth, Sweden Elisabeth Honner, Germany Hiroyuki Isayama, Japan Geoffroy Vanbiervliet, France Charles Kahi, USA Michael Vieth, Germany Michal Kaminski, Poland Peter Vilmann, Denmark Statistical Advisors Arjun Koch, Netherlands Daniel von Renteln, Canada Todd A. 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