Total colonoscopy with a transparent hood for trainees [8]

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 102, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2355-2356

  Matsushita, Mitsunobu ^a   Danbara, Naoyuki ^a   Fukui, Toshiro ^a   Matsumoto, Takayuki ^a   Uchida, Kazushige ^a   Omiya, Mika ^a   Okazaki, Kazuichi ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONOSCOPE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIVERTICULOSIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE POLYP; INTUBATION; LETTER; MEDICAL STUDENT; PELVIS SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOSCOPES; COLONOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34848905617     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2007.01353_8.x     Document Type: Letter

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