The water immersion technique is easy to learn for routine use during EGD for duodenal villous evaluation: A single-center 2-year experience

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 244-248

  Cammarota, Giovanni ^a   Cesaro, Paola ^a   Cazzato, Alessia ^a   Cianci, Rossella ^a   Fedeli, Paolo ^a   Ojetti, Veronica ^a   Certo, Maria ^a   Sparano, Lucia ^a   Giovannini, Silvia ^a   Larocca, Luigi M ^a   Vecchio, Fabio M ^a   Gasbarrini, Giovanni ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Celiac disease; Diagnosis; Endoscopic markers; Endoscopy; Immersion technique

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELIAC DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DUODENUM; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE VILLUS; INTESTINE VILLUS ATROPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WATER IMMERSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATROPHY; CELIAC DISEASE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DUODENOSCOPY; DUODENUM; FEMALE; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HUMANS; IMMERSION; MALE; MICROVILLI; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WATER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650917729     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCG.0b013e318159c654     Document Type: Article

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