A hypothesis-generating review of the water method for difficult colonoscopy

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 517-521

  Leung, Felix W ^a,b  

^a VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Difficult colonoscopy; water method

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANXIETY; BODY MASS; CECUM; COLONOSCOPY; DIFFICULT COLONOSCOPY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; DIVERTICULOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; HYSTERECTOMY; MEDLINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

COLONOSCOPY; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; HUMANS; INSUFFLATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; WATER;

EID: 79954540069     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: 15027708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365521.2011.551885     Document Type: Review

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