Wireless Capsule Endoscopy: Light at the End of the Tunnel for Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 496-497

  Leong, A F P K ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIODYSPLASIA; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE DIVERTICULOSIS; INTESTINE ULCER; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; JEJUNITIS; JEJUNUM DISEASE; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; RELIABILITY; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; SMALL INTESTINE STRICTURE; SMALL INTESTINE TUMOR; TREATMENT INDICATION;

CAPSULES; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS;

EID: 2442606194     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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