Usefulness of the double-balloon enteroscope in colonoscopies performed in patients with previously failed colonoscopy

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 277-278

  Mönkemüller, Klaus ^a,b   Knippig, Claudia ^a   Rickes, Steffen ^a   Fry, Lucia C ^a   Schulze, Annekathrin ^a   Malfertheiner, Peter ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MAGDEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANUS; BALLOON DILATATION; CECUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLON DISEASE; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPE; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; SIGMOID;

AGED; BALLOON DILATATION; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOSCOPES; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 33846974677     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: 15027708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365520600802785     Document Type: Letter

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