A 'double-balloon enteroscopy worth the money': Endoscopic removal of a coin lodged in the small bowel

Digestive Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 388-389

  Neumann, Helmut ^a   Fry, Lucía C ^a   Rickes, Steffen ^b   Jurczok, Christian ^a   Malfertheiner, Peter ^a   Mönkemüller, Klaus ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b St Salvator Krankenhaus   (Germany)

Author keywords

Balloon enteroscopy; Double balloon enteroscopy; Enteroscopy; Foreign body

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE; CASE REPORT; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; JEJUNUM; POLYPECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE; STANDARD; STENT;

BALLOON DILATATION; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL;

EID: 59649110948     PISSN: 02572753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000177029     Document Type: Article

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