COURSE
Series: ESGE Academy Journal
Season: Journal 06-2026
Episode 4 of 4: Characteristics of different endoscopic equipment in EUS

SPEAKERS
Dr. Apostolis Papaefthymiou, Dr. Katarzyna Monika Pawlak, Ms. Elena Tenorio González

DESCRIPTION
Therapeutic EUS depends on understanding what each device is made of and why that construction fits a given task. This session walks through the toolbox in the order of the procedure itself: the echoendoscope and the working channel, access needles and the guidewires, devices for creating the transmural tract, and the full range of drainage stents — double-pigtail plastic stents, lumen-apposing metal stents and dedicated partially covered SEMS for hepaticogastrostomy — before closing with the material used for vascular embolisation. For each family, the focus is on the three variables that actually change behaviour at the table: calibre, stiffness and delivery system. The aim is a practical framework for choosing equipment, so that the reasoning survives the next change in the catalogue

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
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