Accuracy and interobserver agreement of small-caliber vs. conventional esophagogastro-duodenoscopy for evaluating esophageal varices

Endoscopy

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 673-678

  Pungpapong, Surakit ^a   Keaveny, A ^a   Raimondo, M ^a   Dickson, R ^a   Woodward, T ^a   Harnois, D ^a   Wallace, M ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPE; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTUBATION; KAPPA STATISTICS; LIGATION; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT CODING; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEDATION; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; DUODENOSCOPY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESOPHAGOSCOPE; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; EVALUATION; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPE; GASTROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; DUODENOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPES, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; ESOPHAGOSCOPES; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINIATURIZATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34548032174     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-966351     Document Type: Article

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