Double-balloon enteroscopy in patients with previous incomplete colonoscopy: Should we perform them more often?

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 887-888

  Gómez, Victoria ^a   Patel, Mihir K ^a   Stark, Mark E ^a   Lukens, Frank J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; BALLOON PUMP; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; MALE; POLYPECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CECUM; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DOUBLE-BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPERATIVE TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867741487     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: 15392031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCG.0b013e31825f2d05     Document Type: Letter

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