Confocal laser endomicroscopy: Is it prime time?

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 205-206

  Othman, Mohamed O ^a   Wallace, Michael B ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FLUORESCEIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLONOSCOPY; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; ENTERITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT EXAMINATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE MUCOSA; INTESTINE MUCOSA PERMEABILITY; LASER MICROSCOPE; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ANIMALS; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; COMMON BILE DUCT; COMMON BILE DUCT DISEASES; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; CROHN DISEASE; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; RATS;

EID: 79951784864     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCG.0b013e31820776e6     Document Type: Editorial

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