Transparent hood attached to the colonoscope: Does it really work for all types of colonoscopes?

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2654-2658

  Shida, Takashi ^a,b   Katsuura, Yosuke ^b   Teramoto, Osamu ^b   Kaiho, Makoto ^c   Takano, Shigetsugu ^a   Yoshidome, Hiroyuki ^a   Miyazaki, Masaru ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Omigawa General Hospital   (Japan)

^c Kaiho Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Pain; Pediatric colonoscope; Standard adult colonoscope; Transparent hood

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLONOSCOPE; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSPARENT HOOD; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CECUM; COLONOSCOPES; COLONOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PILOT PROJECTS;

EID: 56349116177     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-008-9790-6     Document Type: Article

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