Small bowel endoscopy: Have we conquered the final frontier?

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 536-538

  Lo, Simon K ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPIC POLYPECTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; FOREIGN BODY; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE; JEJUNOSTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SMALL INTESTINE; STENT;

BALLOON DILATATION; ENDOSCOPES, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINE, SMALL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847316948     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2007.01056.x     Document Type: Review

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