Our Interventional Endoscopy program offers minimally invasive endoscopic services to the Solano County community and beyond. The use of state-of-the-art interventional endoscopic advances and techniques allow us to diagnose and treat many gastrointestinal and pancreaticobiliary diseases, avoiding the need for surgery.
Our interventional endoscopy experts offer:
- ERCP / Diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography for:
- Management of benign disease:
- Bile duct stone
- Post-operative bile leaks
- Inflammatory biliary strictures
- Diagnosis and management of malignant diseases:
- Biliary obstruction from pancreatic cancer
- Bile duct cancer
- Liver cancer
- Comprehensive management of chronic and recurrent pancreatitis:
- Pancreatic sphincterotomy
- Stricture dilation
- Stent placement
- Management of benign disease:
- EUS / Diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic ultrasound with fine-needle aspiration for:
- Pancreatic cancer diagnosis and staging
- Pancreatic cyst sampling and pseudocyst drainage and debridement
- Submucosal nodules of the gastrointestinal tract
- Celiac ganglion blockade and neurolysis for chronic pain from chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer respectively
- Evaluation of mediastinal and abdominal masses adjacent to the GI tract
- Resection of large colon polyps with endomucosal resection (EMR) techniques
- Luminal stent placement for obstruction from gastrointestinal cancers
- Barretts esophagus diagnosis and management
- Radiofrequency Ablation