Diagnostic yield and clinical impact of wireless capsule endoscopy in patients with chronic abdominal pain with or without diarrhea: A Greek multicenter study

European Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Katsinelos, Panagiotis ^a   Fasoulas, Kostas ^a   Beltsis, Athanasios ^b   Chatzimavroudis, Grigoris ^a   Paroutoglou, George ^c   Maris, Theofanis ^b   Mimidis, Kostas ^d   Koufokotsios, Alexandros ^e   Terzoudis, Sotiris ^a   Atmatzidis, Stefanos ^a   Kaltsa, Agoritsa ^c   Kapetanos, Dimitris ^b   Kamperis, Eustathios ^a   Zavos, Christos ^f   Kountouras, Jannis ^f   Belou, Aristea ^a  

^a G GENNIMATAS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b G PAPANICOLAOU HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^d DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^e General Clinic   (Greece)

^f ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Capsule endoscopy; Diarrhea

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIARRHEA; ENTEROPATHY; EOSINOPHILIC ENTERITIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTESTINE INJURY; INTESTINE LYMPHANGIECTASIA; INTESTINE TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPEN STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; SMALL INTESTINE; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STOMACH CARCINOID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CHRONIC PAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREECE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052970965     PISSN: 09536205     EISSN: 18790828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2011.06.012     Document Type: Article

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