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  1. Endoscopic ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation of the pancreas: An experimental study with pathological correlation

    Article • Endoscopic Ultrasound, January 2015, Medknow

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  2. Sa1950 PROM1/ALCAM/Ki-67 Triple Immunofluorescence Assessment for Putative Cancer Stem Cells in Colorectal Carcinoma

    Article • Gastroenterology, May 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  3. Sa1000 Focal Liver Lesions Classification by Artificial Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines Employing Dynamic Imaging Data

    Article • Gastroenterology, May 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  4. Sa1976 Virtual Palpation Model -Combining Spiral CT and Elastography Data: a Proof-of-Concept Study

    Article • Gastroenterology, May 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  5. Mo1451 The Contrast Enhanced Endoscopic Ultrasound Increases the Diagnostic Accuracy of the Fine Needle Aspiration in Pancreatic Masses

    Article • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, May 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  6. Mo1430 Pitfalls in the Interpretation of Pancreatic Endoscopic Ultrasound Guided Needle Confocal LASER Endomicroscopy

    Article • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, May 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  7. Mo1354 Low Mechanical Index Contrast-Enhanced Endoscopic Ultrasound for Quantitative Assessment of Tumour Perfusion in Colorectal Cancer Patients: Preliminary Study

    Article • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, May 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  8. Evaluation of New Morphometric Parameters of Neoangiogenesis in Human Colorectal Cancer Using Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy (CLE) and Targeted Panendothelial Markers

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2014, PLOS

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  9. Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound of lymph nodes: towards better imaging

    Article • Medical Ultrasonography, March 2014, SRUMB - Romanian Society for Ultrasonography in Medicine and Biology

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  10. Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) For The Evaluation Of Focal Liver Lesions – A Prospective Multicenter Study Of Its Usefulness In Clinical Practice

    Article • Ultraschall in der Medizin - European Journal of Ultrasound, February 2014, Thieme Publishing Group

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  11. Accuracy of Visual Scoring and Semi-Quantification of Ultrasound Strain Elastography – A Phantom Study

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2014, PLOS

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  12. Can elastography replace fine needle aspiration?

    Article • Endoscopic Ultrasound, January 2014, Medknow

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  13. Tips to Overcome Technical Challenges in EUS-guided Tissue Acquisition

    Article • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  14. Differential diagnosis of focal pancreatic masses by semiquantitative EUS elastography: between strain ratios and strain histograms

    Article • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, July 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  15. Multicenter randomized controlled trial comparing the performance of 22 gauge versus 25 gauge EUS–FNA needles in solid masses

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  16. Letter to the EFSUMB Newsletter Editor Adrian Săftoiu

    Article • Ultraschall in der Medizin - European Journal of Ultrasound, June 2013, Thieme Publishing Group

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  17. Arterial bleeding during EUS-guided pseudocyst drainage stopped by placement of a covered self-expandable metal stent

    Article • BMC Gastroenterology, May 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  18. Mo1517 Needle-Based Confocal LASER Endomicroscopy Examination of Pancreatic Masses

    Article • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, May 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  19. Mo1646 Texture Analysis of Confocal LASER Endomicroscopy Images Using a Model of Gray Level Co-Occurrence Matrices

    Article • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, May 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  20. Tu1421 Feasibily Study for the Evaluation of Morphopatological Pattern of Neoangiogenesis in Human Colorectal Cancer Using Confocal LASER Microscopy and Targeted Anti- Cd105 Antibodies

    Article • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, May 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  21. Real-Time Image Fusion Involving Diagnostic Ultrasound

    Article • American Journal of Roentgenology, March 2013, American Roentgen Ray Society

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  22. Perioperative inflammatory response in natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery

    Article • Surgical Endoscopy, February 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  23. Quantitative low mechanical index contrast-enhanced endoscopic ultrasound for the differential diagnosis of chronic pseudotumoral pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer

    Article • BMC Gastroenterology, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  24. Large Pancreatic Mucinous Cystic Neoplasm during Pregnancy: What Should Be Done?

    Article • Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation, January 2013, Karger Publishers

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  25. Endoscopic ultrasound-guided drainage of pancreatic pseudocysts: Medium-term assessment of outcomes and complications

    Article • Endoscopic Ultrasound, January 2013, Medknow

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  26. Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration: From the past to the future

    Article • Endoscopic Ultrasound, January 2013, Medknow

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  27. Role of EUS-FNA in recurrent lung cancer: Maximum results with minimum (minimally invasive) effort

    Article • Endoscopic Ultrasound, January 2013, Medknow

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  28. Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor and epidermal growth factor receptor in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas, neuroendocrine tumours and chronic pancreatitis

    Article • Endoscopic Ultrasound, January 2013, Medknow

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  29. Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy for the Morphometric Evaluation of Microvessels in Human Colorectal Cancer Using Targeted Anti-CD31 Antibodies

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2012, PLOS

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  30. VEGF-A and VEGF-B mRNA expression in gastro-oesophageal cancers

    Article • Clinical & Translational Oncology, August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  31. Feasibility Study of EUS-NOTES as a Novel Approach for Pancreatic Cancer Staging and Therapy: An International Collaborative Study

    Article • Hepatogastroenterology, July 2012, Update Medical Publishing

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  32. IRGM gene polymorphisms and risk of gastric cancer

    Article • Journal of Digestive Diseases, June 2012, Wiley

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  33. Sa1571 Diagnosis of Focal Pancreatic Masses by Quantitative Low Mechanical Index Contrast-Enhanced Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS)

    Article • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, April 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  34. Sa1509 Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing the Performance of 22 Gauge Versus 25 Gauge EUS-FNA Needles

    Article • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, April 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  35. Power doppler endoscopic ultrasound for the assessment of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors

    Article • Endoscopic Ultrasound, January 2012, Medknow

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  36. Efficacy of an Artificial Neural Network–Based Approach to Endoscopic Ultrasound Elastography in Diagnosis of Focal Pancreatic Masses

    Article • Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  37. Quantitative RT-PCR Analysis of MMR Genes on EUS-Guided FNA Samples From Focal Pancreatic Lesions

    Article • Hepatogastroenterology, October 2011, Update Medical Publishing

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  38. Hybrid Imaging Techniques

    Article • Ultraschall in der Medizin - European Journal of Ultrasound, October 2011, Thieme Publishing Group

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  39. EFSUMB Newsletter Editor Adrian Săftoiu

    Article • Ultraschall in der Medizin - European Journal of Ultrasound, October 2011, Thieme Publishing Group

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  40. Beyond conventional endoscopic ultrasound

    Article • Current Opinion in Gastroenterology, September 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  41. Techniques of image enhancement in EUS (with videos)

    Article • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, September 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  42. Mo1388 Expression Profile of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Human Pancreatic Cancer Assessed by qRT-PCR in EUS-FNA Samples

    Article • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, April 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  43. Mo1511 Feasibility Study of Tridimensional Co-Registration of Endoscopic Ultrasound and Dynamic Spiral Computer Tomography Procedures for Real-Time Evaluation of Tumor Angiogenesis

    Article • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, April 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  44. State-of-the-art imaging techniques in endoscopic ultrasound

    Article • World Journal of Gastroenterology, January 2011, Baishideng Publishing Group Co., Limited (formerly WJG Press)

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  45. Imaging techniques used for the real-time assessment of angiogenesis in digestive cancers

    Article • World Journal of Gastroenterology, January 2011, Baishideng Publishing Group Co., Limited (formerly WJG Press)

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  46. Competitive/collaborative neural computing system for medical diagnosis in pancreatic cancer detection

    Article • Expert Systems, November 2010, Wiley

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  47. Combined contrast-enhanced power Doppler and real-time sonoelastography performed during EUS, used in the differential diagnosis of focal pancreatic masses (with videos)

    Article • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, October 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  48. M1920 VEGF Expression and Microvessel Density – the Correlation With the Tumor Stage and the Risk for Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Gastric Cancer Patients

    Article • Gastroenterology, May 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  49. T1509: Feasibility Study of Detection of DNA Mismatch Repair Genes Expression by Using Quantitative Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction in EUS-FNA Samples

    Article • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, April 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  50. M1443: Feasibility Study of EUS-NOTES® As a Novel Approach for Pancreatic Cancer Staging and Therapy: An International Collaborative Study

    Article • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, April 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  51. 415i: Accuracy of Endoscopic Ultrasound Elastography Used for Differential Diagnosis of Chronic Pancreatitis and Pancreatic Cancer: A Multicentric Study

    Article • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, April 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  52. Contrast-Enhanced Power Doppler Endoscopic Ultrasound Used for the Differential Diagnosis of Chronic Pancreatitis and Pancreatic Cancer

    Article • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, April 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  53. Randomized controlled trial of endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle sampling with or without suction for better cytological diagnosis

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, January 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  54. Neural network analysis of dynamic sequences of EUS elastography used for the differential diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer

    Article • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, December 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  55. Reply

    Article • American Journal of Roentgenology, June 2008, American Roentgen Ray Society

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  56. S1892 Expression Profile of Genes Coding for DNA Repair in Human Pancreatic Cancer

    Article • Gastroenterology, April 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  57. Neural Network Analysis of Dynamic Sequences of EUS Elastography Used for the Differential Diagnosis of Chronic Pancreatitis and Pancreatic Cancer

    Article • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, April 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  58. Hue Histogram Analysis of Real-Time Elastography Images for Noninvasive Assessment of Liver Fibrosis

    Article • American Journal of Roentgenology, October 2007, American Roentgen Ray Society

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  59. Dynamic analysis of EUS used for the differentiation of benign and malignant lymph nodes

    Article • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, August 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  60. EUS-Assisted Rendezvous Stenting of the Pancreatic Duct for Chronic Calcifying Pancreatitis with Multiple Pseudocysts

    Article • Pancreatology, May 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  61. Dynamic Analysis of Endoscopic Ultrasound Elastography Used for the Differentiation of Chronic Pancreatitis and Pancreatic Cancer

    Article • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, April 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  62. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided Trucut biopsy adds significant information to EUS-guided fine-needle aspiration in selected patients: A prospective study

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  63. Endoscopic ultrasound‐guided fine needle aspiration biopsy: Equipment and technique

    Article • Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, September 2006, Wiley

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  64. Analysis of Endoscopic Ultrasound Elastography Used for Characterization of Benign and Malignant Lymph Nodes

    Article • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, April 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  65. Epidemiology of inflammatory bowel disease in adults who refer to gastroenterology care in Romania

    Article • European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, November 2004, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  66. Spontaneous pancreaticorenal fistula

    Article • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, December 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  67. Evolution and prognosis in patients with acute liver failure caused byleptospirosis

    Article • Journal of Hepatology, April 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  68. Immunohistochemical markers of angiogenesis and Doppler tissue characterization in large hepatocellular carcinoma

    Article • Journal of Hepatology, April 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu

  69. Hepatic arterial blood flow in large hepatocellular carcinoma with or without portal vein thrombosis: assessment by transcutaneous duplex Doppler sonography

    Article • European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, February 2002, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Adrian Saftoiu