Double-balloon enteroscopy in the elderly: safety, findings, and diagnostic and therapeutic success

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 983-989

  Hegde, Sanjay R ^a   Iffrig, Kevan ^a   Li, Tianyu ^a   Downey, Sharon ^a   Heller, Stephen J ^a   Tokar, Jeffrey L ^a   Haluszka, Oleh ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINAL BLEEDING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINE, SMALL; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951652610     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2009.10.054     Document Type: Article

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