Small bowel endoscopy using the double-balloon technique: Four-year results in a tertiary referral hospital in Brazil

Digestive Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 318-323

  Kuga, Rogerio ^a,b   Safatle Ribeiro, Adriana Vaz ^a   Ishida, Robson Kiyoshi ^a   Retes, Felipe ^a   Uemura, Ricardo Sato ^a   Sakai, Paulo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Double balloon endoscopy; Double balloon enteroscopy; Enteroscopy; Small bowel

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BRAZIL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIGAMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; POLYPECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SMALL INTESTINE; SMALL INTESTINE MUCOSA; TATTOOING; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIODYSPLASIA; BALLOON DILATATION; BRAZIL; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 59649121996     PISSN: 02572753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000177016     Document Type: Article

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