Reproducibility of wireless capsule endoscopy in the investigation of chronic obscure gastrointestinal bleeding

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 707-714

  Christodoulou, Dimitrios ^a,b   Haber, Gregory ^c   Beejay, Umar ^d   Tang, Shou Jiang ^a   Zanati, Simon ^a   Petroniene, Rima ^a   Cirocco, Maria ^a   Kortan, Paul ^a   Kandel, Gabor ^a   Tatsioni, Athina ^b   Tsianos, Epameinondas ^b   Marcon, Norman ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c LENOX HILL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capsule endoscopy; Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding; Push enteroscopy; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

GOLYTELY;

ABDOMINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUSH ENTEROSCOPY; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

EID: 38649087073     PISSN: 08357900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2007/407075     Document Type: Article

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