Water infusion versus air insufflation for colonoscopy

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Hafner, Susanne ^a   Zolk, Karsten ^b   Radaelli, Franco ^c   Otte, Jörg ^d   Rabenstein, Thomas ^e   Zolk, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b Department of Internal Medicine Angiology   (Germany)

^c VALDUCE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^e Department of Medicine   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR INSUFFLATION COLONOSCOPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CECAL INTUBATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLON ADENOMA; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINAL BLEEDING; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUMERIC RATING SCALE; OXYGEN DESATURATION; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WATER INFUSION COLONOSCOPY; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADENOMA; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AERATION; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC USE; META ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

WATER;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADENOMA; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INSUFFLATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; WATER;

EID: 84945426148     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009863.pub2     Document Type: Review

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