Double-balloon endoscopy in clinical practice: Where are we now?

Digestive Endoscopy

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 209-219

  Rondonotti, Emanuele ^a   Sunada, Keijiro ^b   Yano, Tomonori ^b   Paggi, Silvia ^a   Yamamoto, Hironori ^b  

^a VALDUCE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

capsule endoscopy; complications; Crohn's disease; double balloon endoscopy; obscure gastrointestinal bleeding

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROHN DISEASE; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; FAMILIAL POLYPOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTESTINAL BLEEDING; MALABSORPTION; PEUTZ JEGHERS SYNDROME; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SMALL INTESTINE PERFORATION; SMALL INTESTINE TUMOR;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; CROHN DISEASE; DOUBLE-BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; PEUTZ-JEGHERS SYNDROME;

EID: 84862868782     PISSN: 09155635     EISSN: 14431661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1443-1661.2012.01240.x     Document Type: Review

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