Banner Health Clinic

Banner Health Clinic, specializing in Interventional Gastroenterology, offers a subspecialty of gastroenterology where complex endoscopic procedures are used to provide patients with safe and effective alternatives to more invasive diagnostic testing or surgery. The use of advanced technology allows for adequate staging and diagnosis of tumors, safe removal of early cancers and also allows treatment of more complicated diseases in a minimally invasive fashion.

Interventional Endoscopy Service offers the following procedures:

• Diagnostic and Therapeutic Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS)
• Fine Needle Aspiration of pancreatic, biliary, gastro-esophageal, peri-rectal and mediastinal tumors.
• EUS-guided parenchymal liver biopsy
• Pseudocyst drainage/pancreatic necrosectomy
• EUS-assisted pancreatobiliary access
• Fiducial placement for targeted radiation therapy
• Celiac Plexus Neurolysis (Nerve Block)
• Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
• Failed biliary access
• Complex hilar strictures
• Difficult common bile duct stones
• Pancreatobiliary malignancy
• Endoscopic therapy for chronic pancreatitis
• Surgically altered anatomy –s/p Gastric Bypass, Whipple resections or Bilroth II
• Biliary and Pancreatic Duct Endoscopy--Cholangioscopy and Pancreatoscopy (SpyGlass)
• Endoscopic Pseudocyst Drainage and Peripancreatic Necrosectomy
• Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR)
• Endoscopic Therapies for Barrett’s Esophagus (Radiofrequency ablation -RFA, EMR)
• Balloon Enteroscopy and Spiral Enteroscopy for Small Bowel Disorders
• Endoscopic Management of Complications after Gastric Bypass Surgery
• Enteral, Esophageal, and Colonic Stenting
• Endoscopic Gastro-Jejunal feeding tubes