Jacques Van Dam, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, California, USA. Richard C.K. Wong, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio, USA.

1. Informed Consent 2. Conscious Sedation and Monitoring 3. Antibiotic Prophylaxis 4. Principle of Endoscopic Electrosurgery 5. The Benign Esophagus 6. Malignant Esophagus 7. Esophageal Manometry 8. Twenty-Four Hour pH Testing 9. Gastrointestinal Foreign Bodies 10. Endoscopic Therapy for Nonvariceal Acute Upper GI Bleeding 11. Endoscopic Management of Lower GI Bleeding 12. Endoscopic Management of Variceal Bleeding 13. Lasers in Endoscopy 14. Endoscopy of the Pregnant Patient 15. Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy and Percutaneous Endoscopic Jejunostomy 16. Small Bowel Endoscopy 17. Flexible Sigmoidoscopy. 18. Colonoscopy 19. ERCP- Introduction, Equipment, Normal Anatomy 20. Endoscopic Therapy of Benign Pancreatic Disease 21. ERCP in Malignant Disease 22. Endoscopic Ultrasound: Tumor Staging (Esophagus, Gastric, Rectal, Lung 23. Endoscopic Ultrasound: Submucosal Tumors and Thickened Gastric Folds 24. Endoscopic Ultrasonography (EUS) of the Upper Abdomen 25. Liver Biopsy 26. Endoscopy of the Pediatric Patient, Index.