The impact of wireless capsule endoscopy on gastrointestinal diseases

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 235-236

  Eliakim, Rami ^a,b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Rambam Health Care Campus ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COLONOILEOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; EDITORIAL; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROSCOPY; HUMAN; ILEOSCOPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; POLYPOSIS; RISK FACTOR; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOREIGN BODY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTESTINE TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; SMALL INTESTINE;

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPES; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOREIGN BODIES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; INTESTINE, SMALL;

EID: 34247603480     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.smj.0000257405.87268.48     Document Type: Editorial

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