Consequences of detecting small bowel metastasis of malignant melanoma by capsule endoscopy [6]

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 244-245

  Albert, Jörg G ^a   Fiedler, Eckhard ^a   Marsch, Wolfgang Ch ^a   Helmbold, Peter ^b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COLONOSCOPY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTESTINE CANCER; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; OCCULT BLOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM METASTASIS;

EID: 37849004412     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2007.01562_6.x     Document Type: Letter

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