Obscure GI bleeding: is capsule endoscopy sufficient?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1128-1130

  Lai, Larry H ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENEMA;

ANGIODYSPLASIA; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SMALL INTESTINE; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; SMALL INTESTINE TUMOR;

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 56349148363     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2008.08.008     Document Type: Editorial

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