Push-and-pull enteroscopy using the double-balloon technique (double-balloon enteroscopy) for the diagnosis of Meckel's diverticulum in adult patients with GI bleeding of obscure origin

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1152-1154

  Manner, Hendrik ^a,b   May, Andrea ^a   Nachbar, Lars ^a   Ell, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b Innere Medizin II   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT SCINTISCANNING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE RADIOGRAPHY; MALE; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; BALLOON DILATATION; ENDOSCOPES, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM;

EID: 33646585444     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2006.00558.x     Document Type: Article

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