Double-Balloon Endoscopy Theory and Practice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sugano, Kentaro (Editor), Yamamoto, Hironori (Editor), Kita, Hiroto (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan, 2006.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Gastroenterology.; Minimally invasive surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Minimally Invasive Surgery.

Endoscopic access to the small intestine has for a long time presented a challenge to physicians. Although capsule endoscopy can provide an endoscopic image from the entire small intestine, neither biopsy nor endoscopic treatment can be performed with it. In order to make more definitive diagnoses o...