Small bowel capsule endoscopy: Have we conquered the last frontier?

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 298-301

  Fireman, Zvi ^a,b   Kopelman, Yael ^a,b  

^a HILLEL YAFFE MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Capsule endoscopy; Crohn's disease; Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding; Small bowel

Indexed keywords

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CELIAC DISEASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLON STENOSIS; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOSCOPE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE RADIOGRAPHY; INTESTINE TUMOR; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PUSH ENTEROSCOPY; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; SMALL INTESTINE TUMOR;

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES;

EID: 43249098851     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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