The role of wireless capsule endoscopy in investigating unexplained iron deficiency anemia after negative endoscopic evaluation of the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract

Endoscopy

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1127-1132

  Apostolopoulos, P ^a,c   Liatsos, C ^a   Gralnek, I M ^b   Giannakoulopoulou, E ^a   Alexandrakis, G ^a   Kalantzis, C ^a   Gabriel, P ^a   Kalantzis, N ^a  

^a NIMTS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENEMA;

ADULT; AGED; AIR; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARTICLE; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ILEUM DISEASE; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE POLYP; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; JEJUNUM ULCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33751532702     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-944736     Document Type: Article

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