Usefulness of oblique transparent cylinders in facilitating colonoscopy

Digestive Endoscopy

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 121-124

  Tsumura, Takehiko ^a   Torii, Ayao ^a   Fujita, Shinya ^a   Takeda, Jun ^a   Hikita, Hiroshi ^a   Nishikawa, Haruhiro ^a   Ochi, Jiro ^a   Miura, Kensuke ^a  

^a KYOTO KATSURA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; DEVICE; ENDOSCOPE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBLIQUE TRANSPARENT CYLINDER; TECHNIQUE; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 0141884038     PISSN: 09155635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1443-1661.2003.00229.x     Document Type: Article

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