Usefulness of a small-caliber, variable-stiffness colonoscope as a backup in patients with difficult or incomplete colonoscopy

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 99, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1936-1940

  Horiuchi, Akira ^a   Nakayama, Yoshiko ^a   Kajiyama, Masashi ^a   Fujii, Hideyasu ^a   Tanaka, Naoki ^a  

^a Showa Inan General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CECUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLONOSCOPE; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RIGIDITY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SMALL CALIBER VARIABLE STIFFNESS COLONOSCOPE;

COLONOSCOPES; COLONOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 7044233586     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2004.40201.x     Document Type: Review

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