The new PillCam Colon capsule: difficult colonoscopy? No longer a problem?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 807-808

  Spada, Cristiano ^a   Riccioni, Maria Elena ^a   Petruzziello, Lucio ^a   Marchese, Michele ^a   Urgesi, Riccardo ^a   Costamagna, Guido ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADENOMATOUS POLYP; AGED; ARTICLE; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE; CASE REPORT; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; MELENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ULCER;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; DIVERTICULUM, COLON; FEMALE; HUMANS;

EID: 53049097439     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2008.01.030     Document Type: Article

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