Endoscopy in Small Bowel Disorders
This volume reviews the history of endoscopy to diagnose small bowel disorders, places other diagnostic modalities into perspective, and defines the role of capsule endoscopy and per overtube assisted and retrograde enteroscopy in disorders as disparate a
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Endoscopy in Small Bowel Disorders
Richard Kozarek • Jonathan A. Leighton Editors
Endoscopy in Small Bowel Disorders
Editors Richard Kozarek Virginia Mason Medical Center Digestive Disease Institute Seattle, WA, USA
Jonathan A. Leighton Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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Preface
Historically, small bowel disorders remained a diagnostic dilemma at a time that endoscopy and colonoscopy were routinely applied not only to the diagnosis but also to the treatment of acid peptic, neoplastic, and inflammatory gastrointestinal disorders. The midgut remained an endoscopic mystery. With the exception of surgically facilitated scope passage through a jejunal enterotomy, endoscopists nibbled at the edge of the small bowel, reaching the proximal jejunum with per os colonoscopes or overtube-assisted enteroscopes and the terminal ileum at time of colonoscopy. Other imaging wasn’t much better: upper gastrointestinal and small bowel barium studies, Meckel’s scan, and, only later, computed tomography enterography (CTE) scan looking for mass lesions, evidence of obstruction, or small bowel wall thickening. The past several decades have seen an explosion in small bowel imaging leading to improved diagnosis and directed therapy. Although this is an endoscopic text, the editors would do the readers a disservice without putting endoscopy into perspective. As such, we direct your attention to the excellent chapters on conventional barium studi
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