ShapeLock: A rapid access port for redeployment of a colonoscope into the proximal colon to facilitate multiple polypectomies in a single session

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 768-770

  Raju, Gottumukkala S ^a,b   Pasricha, Pankaj J ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPE; COLONOSCOPY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENDOSCOPIC POLYPECTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOID;

AGED; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPES; COLONOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 18044382701     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5107(05)00286-5     Document Type: Article

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