DDW Congress Report 1995 San Diego, 14-17 May 1995

This year's DDW again presented us with an extremely interesting and very up-to-date variety of endoscopic abstracts, dealing with established as well as new technology, and increasingly attempting to evaluate relevant issues such as cost-effectiveness and outcome. As is the case every year, the present DDW Congress Report faces the problem of how to cover all the abstracts accepted, while at the same time trying not to deal with them too superficially. The published endoscopic abstracts, the number of which has greatly increased, form the basis for this review, although an update for oral or poster presentation in San Diego may have changed the message in a few of them.