Ultrathin endoscopes

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 893-898

  Rodriguez, Sarah A ^a   Banerjee, Subhas ^a   Desilets, David ^a   Diehl, David L ^a   Farraye, Francis A ^a   Kaul, Vivek ^a   Kwon, Richard S ^a   Mamula, Petar ^a   Pedrosa, Marcos C ^a   Varadarajulu, Shyam ^a   Song, Louis Michel Wong Kee ^a   Tierney, William M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; BILIARY TRACT ENDOSCOPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST; ENDOSCOPE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROPROCESSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; STOMACH CANCER; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; TRANSNASAL ENDOSCOPE; ULTRA THIN ENDOSCOPE;

ENDOSCOPES, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HUMANS;

EID: 77951519387     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2010.01.022     Document Type: Article

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