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Preface

Learning to perform and interpret endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) requires both didactic learning and repetitive exposure to images usually accomplished through procedural volume. We provided detailed aspects of the didactic portion of learning in the Gress and Savides textbook Endoscopic Ultrasonography. We then created the Gress, Savides, Bounds and Deutsch Atlas of Endoscopic Ultrasonography to provide aspiring endosonographers access to numerous images and videos to assist them with improving their pattern recognition of pathologic conditions.

In this second edition of the Atlas, we are grateful that the renowned Brazilian endoscopist Everson Artifon has joined our team, along with our previous editor Brenna Casey who has continued with the Atlas. Our previous editor, John Deutsch, has retired and fortunately his timeless and superb chapters related to learning EUS anatomy are retained.

In this edition, we are excited to have expanded our international panel of world class endosonographers as contributing authors to provide a variety of styles and approaches to EUS. Our authors include some of the “first‐generation” pioneers of endoscopic ultrasound as well as the next generation of interventional EUS pioneers who are improving the imaging abilities of new and enhanced EUS technology and expanding the breadth of interventional techniques. We are especially pleased to offer many new sections on “How to do” aspects of interventional and therapeutic EUS procedures.

We hope this Atlas will appeal to a wide spectrum of endosonographers, from those who are beginning their training to those who are looking to expand their horizons with therapeutic techniques.

Finally, we want to thank our families, colleagues, editors, authors, and especially Jenny Seward from our publisher, Wiley, for all their support without whom this Atlas could not be possible.

Frank Gress MD

Thomas Savides MD