In this multicenter, prospective, cross-sectional study, 422 patients (mean age 55.8 ± 9 years) from a general medical clinic population underwent unsedated office-based transnasal esophagoscopy. The procedure was feasible, safe and well-tolerated, and the management of 38% of patients was changed in response to esophageal findings of erosive esophagitis or Barrett esophagus.
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Peery, A. F. et al. Feasibility, safety, acceptability, and yield of office-based, screening transnasal esophagoscopy (with video). Gastrointest. Endosc. doi:10.1016/j.gie.2012.01.021
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Screening for esophageal disease with transnasal esophagoscopy in a primary care setting. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 9, 245 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrgastro.2012.70
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