{"id":14052,"date":"2023-04-27T16:50:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T14:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/?post_type=ec-news&#038;p=14052"},"modified":"2023-04-27T16:50:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T14:50:22","slug":"there-is-an-endoscopic-mucosal-transition-zone-on-the-ileocecal-valve","status":"publish","type":"ec-news","link":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/ec-news\/there-is-an-endoscopic-mucosal-transition-zone-on-the-ileocecal-valve\/","title":{"rendered":"There Is an Endoscopic Mucosal Transition Zone on the Ileocecal Valve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Experienced endoscopists are aware that the mucosa on the ileocecal valve (ICV) lips has a 3- to 10-mm-wide transition zone between normal colonic mucosa and the overt villi of the ileum. This zone lacks overt villi, but the pits are larger, more tubular, and with more prominent blood vessels than in normal colonic mucosa. This zone has not been formally characterized before now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigators reported that the zone is consistently visible unless obliterated by inflammation or a circumferential adenoma. The mucosal pits in the transition zone resemble those of an adenoma and may make accurate identification of the border of an adenoma on the ICV difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experienced endoscopists are aware that the mucosa on the ileocecal valve (ICV) lips has a 3- to 10-mm-wide transition zone between normal colonic mucosa and the overt villi of the ileum. This zone lacks overt villi, but the pits are larger, more tubular, and with more prominent blood vessels than in normal colonic mucosa. This &#8230; <a title=\"There Is an Endoscopic Mucosal Transition Zone on the Ileocecal Valve\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/ec-news\/there-is-an-endoscopic-mucosal-transition-zone-on-the-ileocecal-valve\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about There Is an Endoscopic Mucosal Transition Zone on the Ileocecal Valve\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[1768,1769],"tags":[2058,2769,2768,3700],"class_list":["post-14052","ec-news","type-ec-news","status-publish","hentry","category-asge-journal-scan","category-asge-kolon","tag-colon-2","tag-icv","tag-ileocecal-valve","tag-mucosal-transition-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news\/14052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ec-news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}