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World J Gastroenterol. Oct 7, 2015; 21(37): 10683-10687
Published online Oct 7, 2015. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v21.i37.10683
Published online Oct 7, 2015. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v21.i37.10683
Expanding the view of a standard colonoscope with the Third Eye® Panoramic™ cap
Moshe Rubin, Leigh Lurie, Konika Bose, Sang H Kim, New York Presbyterian-Queens, Weill Cornell Medical College, Flushing, NY 11355, United States
Author contributions: Rubin M and Lurie L prepared the manuscript; Bose K prepared the abstract and performed data analysis; Rubin M and Kim SH performed all the study procedures.
Supported by Avantis Medical Systems (Sunnyvale, CA).
Institutional review board statement: This study was approved by Western Institutional Review Board.
Clinical trial registration statement: ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02368977.
Informed consent statement: All study patients signed informed consent.
Conflict-of-interest statement: Rubin M consultant for Fujifilm.
Data sharing statement: All data will be securely stored and is available for review from the author (MR) or the Lang Research Center of New York Presbyterian Queens Hospital 56-45 Main Street Flushing, NY 11355 (718670-2559).
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Moshe Rubin, MD, New York Presbyterian-Queens, Weill Cornell Medical College, Flushing, New York Presbyterian Queens Hospital, 56-45 Main Street Flushing, NY 11355, United States. mrubinmd@mac.com
Telephone: +1-718-6702559 Fax: +1-718-6617021
Received: May 5, 2015
Peer-review started: May 11, 2015
First decision: June 19, 2015
Revised: July 1, 2015
Accepted: July 18, 2015
Article in press: July 18, 2015
Published online: October 7, 2015
Peer-review started: May 11, 2015
First decision: June 19, 2015
Revised: July 1, 2015
Accepted: July 18, 2015
Article in press: July 18, 2015
Published online: October 7, 2015
Core Tip
Core tip: In this study, we present our experience with a brand-new endoscopic device the Third Eye® Panoramic™ Cap (Avantis Medical). The cap clips onto the distal tip of a standard colonoscope and contains side viewing CMOS cameras illuminated with LED lights increasing the viewing angle to 300°. This enables visualization of the colonic mucosa behind folds and in flexures. This preliminary study presents data on the successful implementation and deployment of the cap in routine colonoscopic examinations.