Reliability of the "immersion technique" during routine upper endoscopy for detection of abnormalities of duodenal villi in patients with dyspepsia

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 223-228

  Cammarota, Giovanni ^a,b   Pirozzi, Giuseppe A ^a   Martino, Antonio ^a   Zuccalà, Giuseppe ^a   Cianci, Rossella ^a   Cuoco, Lucio ^a   Ojetti, Veronica ^a   Landriscina, Matteo ^a   Montalto, Massimo ^a   Vecchio, Fabio M ^a   Gasbarrini, Giovanni ^a   Gasbarrini, Antonio ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUODENUM; DUODENUM BIOPSY; DYSPEPSIA; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMERSION; INTESTINE VILLUS ATROPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALABSORPTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ATROPHY; CELIAC DISEASE; DUODENUM; DYSPEPSIA; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMERSION; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 3242793216     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5107(04)01553-6     Document Type: Article

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