The effect on colon visualization during colonoscopy of the addition of simethicone to polyethylene glycol-electrolyte solution: A randomized single-blind study

Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Matro, Rebecca ^a   Tupchong, Keegan ^b   Daskalakis, Constantine ^a   Gordon, Victoria ^c   Katz, Leo ^a   Kastenberg, David ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTE; MACROGOL; MOVIPREP; SIMETHICONE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOATING; COLON BUBBLES; COLON DISEASE; COLON LAVAGE; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; EVENING DOSAGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTESTINE PREPARATION; INTUBATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORNING DOSAGE; MORPHOLOGY; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; VOMITING;

EID: 84886508739     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2155384X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ctg.2012.16     Document Type: Article

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