Variation in small bowel length: Factor in achieving total enteroscopy?

Digestive Endoscopy

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 67-72

  Raines, Daniel ^a   Arbour, Adrienne ^b   Thompson, Hilary W ^c   Figueroa Bodine, Jazmin ^d   Joseph, Saju ^e  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^d St Vincent's Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^e NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

device assisted enteroscopy; ileojejunal length; small bowel length; small intestinal length; total enteroscopy

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILEOJEJUNAL LENGTH; ILEUM; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; INTESTINE PARAMETERS; JEJUNUM; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; SMALL BOWEL LENGTH; SURGICAL PATIENT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; ORGAN SIZE; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE;

BODY MASS INDEX; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84922639088     PISSN: 09155635     EISSN: 14431661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/den.12309     Document Type: Article

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