Capsule endoscopy for obscure GI bleeding yields a high incidence of significant treatable lesions within reach of standard upper endoscopy

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 962-963

  Elijah, David ^a   Daas, Adel ^a   Brady, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; DUODENITIS; DUODENUM DISEASE; DUODENUM ULCER; EROSIVE GASTRITIS; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUSH ENTEROSCOPY; REPEAT PROCEDURE; STOMACH ANTRUM VASCULAR ECTASIA; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH LESION; STOMACH RADIOGRAPHY; STOMACH ULCER; VASCULAR LESION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SMALL INTESTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 54549117960     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCG.0b013e31811edce5     Document Type: Letter

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