Guideline for capsule endoscopy: Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding

Clinical Endoscopy

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 45-53

  Shim, Ki Nam ^a   Moon, Jeong Seop ^b   Chang, Dong Kyung ^c   Do, Jae Hyuk ^d   Kim, Ji Hyun ^b   Min, Byung Hoon ^c   Jeon, Seong Ran ^e   Kim, Jin Oh ^e   Choi, Myung Gyu ^f  

^a Ewha Womans University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Inje University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d Chung Ang University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^e Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^f The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Capsule endoscopy; Guideline; Small bowel disease

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878774820     PISSN: 22342400     EISSN: 22342443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5946/ce.2013.46.1.45     Document Type: Review

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