Formación en endoscopía digestiva. Consideraciones, experiencias y aportes metodológicos. / [Training in digestive endoscopy. Considerations, experiences and methodological contributions]

The bibliographical contributions on education in digestive endoscopy and the need of establishing in Argentina a curricular programming for its teaching-learning are considered. The experience of the authors acquired during the giving of eight Basic or initiation Courses and eight Advanced or Improvement Courses is presented. They used in them six didactic simulators and endoscopic cinematography that completed the written simulations. Conceptual and methodological aspects are exposed to perform the curricular programming of training comprising the student from the student of Medicine to the gastroenterologist or surgeon more devoted or specialist in digestive endoscopy.

Variantes para la demostración histológica del Campylobacter pilórico con microscopía óptica. / [Variants for the histological demonstration of pyloric Campylobacter with optical microscopy]

It is analyzed the use of different staining and observation techniques of Pyloric Campylobacter in gastric biopsies and brushings. Toe the ones already conventional of GRAM and W-S, the following are added: W-S + A.B.; P.A.S. + W-S; W-S; W-S + H-E; PAPANICOLAOU, MASSONS TRICHROMIC, GRAM in tissues and complements of observation with polarization phase contrast and fluorescence. The advantages and applications connected with the bacterium study (presence, morphology, identification, quantity, location) and alterations of the antral mucosa correlated to it (cellular lesions, mucino-genesis alterations, inflammatory component) of each of them are defined.