Routine ileal intubation during screening colonoscopy: A useful maneuver?

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2606-2608

  Kennedy, Gregory ^a   Larson, David ^b   Wolff, Bruce ^b   Winter, Desmond ^b   Petersen, Bret ^b   Larson, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

General endoscopy; GI endoscopy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; COLON CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; SCREENING TEST;

AGED; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEAL DISEASES; ILEITIS; ILEUM; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PSEUDOLYMPHOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 56349085480     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-008-9843-x     Document Type: Article

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