Water immersion simplifies cecal intubation in patients with redundant colons and previous incomplete colonoscopies

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 812-817

  Vemulapalli, Krishna C ^a   Rex, Douglas K ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AERATION; ARTICLE; CECUM; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON DISEASE; COLONOSCOPY; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUNDANT COLON; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WATER IMMERSION;

AGED; AIR; CECUM; COHORT STUDIES; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSUFFLATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WATER;

EID: 84866414103     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2012.05.033     Document Type: Article

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