Improving control of the colonoscope: the "pinkie maneuver"

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 388-389

  Guelrud, Moises ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONOSCOPE; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENDOSCOPY; FORCEPS; HAND; LETTER; PINKIE MANEUVER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENOSYNOVITIS;

COLONOSCOPES; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; TENOSYNOVITIS; THUMB;

EID: 38349106230     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2007.09.010     Document Type: Letter

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