PillCam COLON capsule endoscopy: Recent advances and new insights

Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 265-268

  Adler, Samuel N ^a   Metzger, Yoav C ^b  

^a BIKUR CHOLIM HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Capsule endoscopy; CRC screening; Imaging innovations; Performance; Technical aspects

Indexed keywords

CAMERA; CANCER SCREENING; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COLON CANCER; COLON LAVAGE; COLON MUCOSA; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; ELECTRIC BATTERY; HUMAN; LARGE INTESTINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDER; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE;

EID: 79959551142     PISSN: 1756283X     EISSN: 17562648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1756283X11401645     Document Type: Review

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