Capsule endoscopy: Technique and indications

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 813-837

  Delvaux, Michel ^a   Gay, Gérard ^a  

^a CHU NANCY BRABOIS   (France)

Author keywords

capsule endoscopy; colon; colorectal cancer screening; double balloon enteroscopy; endoscopy; enteroscopy; intestinal diseases; obscure digestive bleeding; oesophagus; small intestine; Wireless capsule endoscopy

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CANCER SCREENING; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CELIAC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON POLYPOSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; ELECTRONICS; ENTEROPATHY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINAL BLEEDING; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE STENOSIS; INTESTINE TUMOR; PERISTALSIS; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPES; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CELIAC DISEASE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CROHN DISEASE; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; INTESTINE, SMALL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 51549119535     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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