The Digestive Diseases and Liver Center houses subspecialty programs, to provide a continuum of care for you. The five programs dedicated to the diagnosis, treatment and study of digestive and liver diseases include:

Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) is a well-established and highly useful technique for the diagnosis, staging, and treatment of lesions involving the upper GI tract, rectum, pancreas, biliary tree, mediastinum, and retroperitoneum.

     A common indication for EUS is assessment of submucosal lesions found incidentally during endoscopy when routine endoscopic biopsies are nondiagnostic. EUS imaging alone can often confirm such benign submucosal lesions as lipomas and leiomyomas. When combined with fine-needle aspiration (FNA), EUS can assist in the diagnosis of submucosal leiomyosarcomas, gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs), carcinoids, carcinomas, and lymphomas when conventional biopsies are negative.

     The University of Illinois at Chicago is one of only a few institutions in Chicago performing EUS and EUS-guided FNA or celiac plexus neurolysis. Over the past 8 years, UIC has become a major referral center for physicians in the Chicagoland area and now performs over 300 EUS procedures annually.

To refer a patient to Dr. Allan Halline for EUS, please call 312-996-3808. You may also contact Dr. Halline at 312-413-7363 or aghallin@uic.edu.