Achieving total enteroscopy with capsule endoscopy in all patients: are we stretching the limits of technology?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 81-83

  Kaffes, Arthur J ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; METOCLOPRAMIDE;

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COLONOSCOPY; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; EDITORIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTESTINE SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE;

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPES; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 57849156908     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2008.06.028     Document Type: Editorial

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