Double balloon enteroscopy-the last blind-point of the gastrointestinal tract

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1041-1045

  Su, Ming Yao ^a   Liu, Nai Jen ^a   Hsu, Chen Ming ^a   Chiu, Cheng Tang ^a,b   Chen, Pang Chi ^a   Lin, Chun Jun ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NONE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Double balloon enteroscopy; Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding

Indexed keywords

INDIAN INK;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; ILEUM; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE TUMOR; INTESTINE ULCER; JEJUNUM; JEJUNUM DISEASE; MALE; MOUTH EXAMINATION; PATIENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; SMALL INTESTINE; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; SUBMUCOSA; SURGICAL APPROACH; TATTOOING; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 20844458766     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-005-2701-y     Document Type: Article

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