Methods for the assessment of small-bowel and colonic transit

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 113-123

  Szarka, Lawrence A ^a   Camilleri, Michael ^a  

^a Clinical Enteric Neuroscience Translational and Epidemiological Research Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; BISACODYL; CARBON 13; CHOLECYSTOKININ RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; INULIN; LACTULOSE; LINACLOTIDE; LUBIPROSTONE; NEUROTROPHIN 3; SEROTONIN AGONIST; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; CECUM; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLON; COLON FLORA; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; FLUOROSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BREATH TEST; INTESTINAL DYSMOTILITY; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; IRRITABLE COLON; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH PARESIS;

EID: 84856408524     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: 15584623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2011.10.004     Document Type: Review

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