Failure of capsule transportation due to gastroparesis after gastric truncal vagotomy [1]

Endoscopy

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 397-398

  Golder S ^a   Herfarth, Hans ^a,b   Kullmann, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AGED; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROSCOPY; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH PARESIS; STOMACH SURGERY; TRUNCUS VAGOTOMY; VIDEORECORDING;

AGED; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; GASTROPARESIS; HUMANS; MALE; VAGOTOMY, TRUNCAL; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 17644409071     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-861095     Document Type: Letter

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