Achieving complete small-bowel capsule endoscopy: is it possible and does it matter?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 109-111

  Schnoll Sussman, Felice ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; METOCLOPRAMIDE;

ANGIODYSPLASIA; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CELIAC DISEASE; CROHN DISEASE; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; EDITORIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; INTESTINAL DISEASES; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMALL INTESTINE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELIAC DISEASE; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINE, SMALL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES;

EID: 77953876415     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2010.03.1065     Document Type: Editorial

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