Effects of ageing on small bowel video-capsule endoscopy examination

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 103, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2474-2480

  Papadopoulos, Angelos A ^a   Triantafyllou, Konstantinos ^a   Kalantzis, Chryssostomos ^b   Adamopoulos, Adam ^a   Ladas, Dimitris ^a   Kalli, Theodora ^a   Apostolopoulos, Pericles ^b   Kalantzis, Nikolaos ^b   Ladas, Spiros D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NIMTS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c LAIKO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARTICLE; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CECUM; CELIAC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE POLYP; INTESTINE PREPARATION; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; INTESTINE ULCER; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH EMPTYING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 53149102037     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2008.02090.x     Document Type: Article

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