Participants are invited to submit original scientific Video Cases for video presentation provided that the Video Cases have not been previously published as a full paper. If you have submitted your case to a journal for publication, please ensure that the publication date will be after the congress. Note also that cases presented during national or international meetings may be submitted.

Accepted Video Case Abstracts will be published in GUT / ENDOSCOPY as well as on a CD-Rom that will be distributed at the congress. The BMJ Publishing Group Ltd (BMJ Group), Thieme Publishers and the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) require an Exclusive Licence to publish the accepted abstracts which you need to grant on behalf of all authors to the abstract as part of your submission of an abstract to UEGW and for publication in the journals GUT and ENDOSCOPY.

Authors are requested to conform to the following guidelines for submission of Video Cases. Cases not conforming to the guidelines will not be referred for review. The Video Case must be submitted in English (UK spelling) and must be presented in that language. Video Cases will be reviewed by a panel of experts and may be selected for video presentation (or may be rejected). The time allotted for each presentation will depend on the session to which the Video Case is allocated.

Submission of a Video Case constitutes a formal commitment by the author to present the Video Case in the session and at the time decided upon by the UEGW 2010 Scientific Committee. Any change in the presenting author needs to be communicated in the form of a written statement to the UEGW 2010 Scientific Committee. If the original presenting author is unable to present the Video Case, it is that person’s responsibility to ensure that one of the co-authors takes over this role. Failure to present the case for other than well-founded reasons will lead to rejection of Video Cases submitted at the next UEGW Congress. The registration fees for the presenting author will not be waived.

We encourage authors to register via the online registration system at the same time as they submit Video Cases as, much to the regret of the organisers, failure to register by the presenting author by August 16, 2010 will automatically imply that the Video Case will neither be included in the Final Programme nor be printed in GUT / ENDOSCOPY.

Notification of acceptance or rejection by the UEGF Scientific Committee will be mailed to the submitting author at the e-mail address supplied on the submission form by the end of July 2010. Bearing in mind the increasing security measures and firewalls, we kindly request that you ensure that e-mails can reach you by adapting your spam filter accordingly. Detailed information, guidelines and recommendations for video presentation, as well as time allotment, date, hour and venue, will be sent in due time.

1. Video Case abstracts may be submitted only electronically by using the online form from January 11, 2010 until the deadline via the conference website, at: www.uegw10.uegf.org
   
2. Cases sent by mail, e-mail or fax will not be accepted.
3. The Internet submission form will automatically reject Video Cases that do not conform to the guidelines.
4. Cases can be saved in draft status and completed before the deadline. Only abstracts with the status “Final submission” will be considered for review.
5. The submission system will generate a temporary submission number that must be used in all correspondence. If you do not receive this number immediately after your submission, your case has not been registered.
6. Once your submission is completed, please send the video documentation on a DVD or CD-Rom to:
   
   UEGW 2010 c/o MCI Suisse SA
   Attn: Lara Poethig
   75, rue de Lyon
   1211 Geneva 13
   Switzerland
7. If you need to withdraw your Video Case abstract, a written statement reflecting the reasons for this decision needs to be sent to UEGW 2010 not later than August 15, 2010.

• The length of the video case abstract should not exceed 2,900 printable characters including author details and headers.
• A title (in capital letters) that clearly indicates the nature of the investigation needs to be provided.
• Abbreviations should be avoided in titles but may be used in the text if they are defined at first usage.
• The authors’ names (full first names, family names) and places of work (institution, city, country) must be shown, but omit degrees, titles, appointments, postal address and acknowledgement of support.
• The Video Case abstract should be as informative as possible:

1. State the specific objective of the study
2. State the methods used, if pertinent
3. Summarise the result obtained
4. State the conclusions reached

• Please make sure that your Video Case abstract does not contain spelling, grammatical or scientific errors, as it will be reproduced exactly as submitted.
• Statements such as “data will be presented” or similar will lead to automatic rejection of the Video Case abstract.
• The reviewers will judge the Video Case abstract according to the originality of work, the relevance to UEGW 2010, standard of English, objectivity of statement, description of what was done, suitability of methods in relation to aims, conclusions confirmed by objective results, ethics, scientific value, potential clinical value and overall impression.
• The name, address, telephone, fax number and e-mail address of the corresponding author must be given as indicated on the submission form.