%0 Journal Article
%T Usefulness of intraoperative endoscopy in pediatric surgery: state of the art
%A Bizzarri Barbara
%A Borgogni Rachele
%A Casolari Emilio
%A Di Mario Francesco
%A Fornaroli Fabiola
%A Gaiani Federica
%A Ghiselli Alessia
%A Leandro Gioacchino
%A Luigi de¡¯ Angelis Gian
%J Archive of "Acta Bio Medica : Atenei Parmensis".
%D 2018
%R 10.23750/abm.v89i8-S.7890
%X Introduction: Intraoperative endoscopy is a procedure that supports open and laparoscopic surgery, helping the surgeon to identify the presence of endoluminal gastrointestinal lesions which need to be treated, with a correct diagnosis and an adequate therapy. Material and methods: A search on PubMed was performed using ¡°intraoperative esophagoscopy¡±, ¡°intraoperative duodenoscopy¡±, and ¡°intraoperative enteroscopy¡± as Mesh terms. The applied exclusion criteria were: papers written before 2000, not concerning pediatric or gastrointestinal pathology, literature-review articles, language different from English. Results: Sixteen studies from 2000 to 2018 were included. Overall, 1210 patients were treated. Different pathologies were considered. Complications were observed in a range of 0.3-14%. The most frequent complications were perforation, bleeding and mucosal tear. Mortality ranged between 0.7% and 1,2%. Conclusion: Intraoperative endoscopy is an indispensable tool for gastrointestinal surgery. In the hands of experienced endoscopists, intraoperative endoscopy can be performed safely, in time-efficient manner, facilitating diagnosis and treatment. (www.actabiomedica.it
%K intraoperative endoscopy
%K pediatric gastroenterology
%K esophagogastroduodenoscopy
%K enteroscopy
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6502215/