New vision in video capsule endoscopy: Current status and future directions

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 392-405

  Fisher, Laurel R ^a   Hasler, William L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER SCREENING; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CELIAC DISEASE; COLON CANCER; CROHN DISEASE; DEVICE APPROVAL; DEVICES; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG TARGETING; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE LAVAGE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SMALL INTESTINE MUCOSA; SMALL INTESTINE TUMOR; UNITED STATES; VIDEO CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY;

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84863433635     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2012.88     Document Type: Review

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