Substantial Variability in Biopsy Practice Patterns Among Gastroenterologists for Suspected Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disorders

Evan S Dellon; Margaret H Collins; Peter A Bonis; John Leung; Kelley E Capocelli; Ranjan Dohil; Gary W Falk; Glenn T Furuta; Calies Menard-Katcher; Sandeep K Gupta; Ikuo Hirano; Girish S Hiremath; Amir F Kagalwalla; Barry K Wershil; Chris A Liacouras; Amanda B Muir; Vincent A Mukkada; Philip E Putnam; Alain M Schoepfer; Alex Straumann; John M Wo; Guang-Yu Yang; Marc E Rothenberg; Nirmala Gonsalves

doi:10.1016/j.cgh.2016.04.025

Substantial Variability in Biopsy Practice Patterns Among Gastroenterologists for Suspected Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disorders

Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2016 Dec;14(12):1842-1844. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2016.04.025. Epub 2016 Apr 22.

Authors

Evan S Dellon¹, Margaret H Collins², Peter A Bonis³, John Leung³, Kelley E Capocelli⁴, Ranjan Dohil⁵, Gary W Falk⁶, Glenn T Furuta⁷, Calies Menard-Katcher⁷, Sandeep K Gupta⁸, Ikuo Hirano⁹, Girish S Hiremath¹⁰, Amir F Kagalwalla¹¹, Barry K Wershil¹¹, Chris A Liacouras¹², Amanda B Muir¹², Vincent A Mukkada¹³, Philip E Putnam¹³, Alain M Schoepfer¹⁴, Alex Straumann¹⁵, John M Wo¹⁶, Guang-Yu Yang¹⁷, Marc E Rothenberg¹⁸, Nirmala Gonsalves¹⁹

Affiliations

¹ Center for Esophageal Diseases and Swallowing, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
² Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
³ Division of Gastroenterology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado.
⁵ Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, California.
⁶ Division of Gastroenterology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁷ Digestive Health Institute, Children's Hospital Colorado and Section of Pediatric Gastroenterology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.
⁸ Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, Indiana.
⁹ Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
¹⁰ Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
¹¹ Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Lurie Children's Hospital, Chicago, Illinois.
¹² Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
¹³ Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
¹⁴ Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland.
¹⁵ Swiss EoE Clinic, Praxis Römerhof, Olten, Switzerland.
¹⁶ Division of Gastroenterology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana.
¹⁷ Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
¹⁸ Division of Allergy and Immunology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
¹⁹ Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Northwestern University Feinberg, School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Biopsy / standards
Colitis / pathology*
Eosinophilia / pathology*
Gastritis / pathology*
Gastroenteritis / pathology*
Gastroenterologists / standards*
Humans
Practice Patterns, Physicians' / standards*

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding