Examples of such causes include angiodysplasia or angioectasia, small bowel Crohn's disease and small bowel malignancy. Intraoperative endoscopy ... which may lead to capsule retention.

On either side of the capsule there are wax plugs, in which there are a few holes that allow intestinal fluid to enter and dissolve the content, thereby dividing the capsule into small particles.

Examination beyond the duodenojejunal flexure is of importance in a number of small bowel disorders. Before the advent of enteroscopy or capsule endoscopy, radiographic studies had been the main ...

Coshocton Public Health District will present Coffee with A Doc, on Monday, Oct. 21, featuring Dr. Kamesh Gupta from Genesis ...

Abstract: Video Capsule Endoscopy (VCE) is currently one of the most effective methods for detecting intestinal diseases. However, it is challenging to detect early-stage small nodules with this ...

The precancerous condition occurs in a small two-inch patch in the lowest ... Historically, the only way to gather the cells ...

A colonoscopy, which looks at the whole of the inside of your large bowel using a flexible tube called a colonoscope A flexible sigmoidoscopy which only looks inside the rectum and lower part of your ...

Correspondence to Brian B Scott, Department of Medicine, Lincoln County Hospital, Lincoln LN2 5QY, UK; drbbscott{at}aol.com Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) occurs in 2–5% of adult men and postmenopausal ...