Video Capsule Endoscopy A Reference Guide and Atlas
This book is simultaneously a superb atlas and a detailed guide to all aspects of video capsule endoscopy. History, technique, performance, reading, indications, contraindications, outcomes, complications and alternative methods are described systematical
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Video Capsule Endoscopy
Martin Keuchel • Friedrich Hagenmüller Hisao Tajiri Editors
Video Capsule Endoscopy A Reference Guide and Atlas
Editors Martin Keuchel, MD, Dr. habil Department of Internal Medicine Bethesda Krankenhaus Bergedorf Academic Teaching Hospital of the University of Hamburg Hamburg Germany
Hisao Tajiri, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department of Internal Medicine The Jikei University School of Medicine Tokyo Japan
Friedrich Hagenmüller, MD Professor of Medicine 1st Medical Department Asklepios Klinik Altona Academic Teaching Hospital of the University of Hamburg Hamburg Germany
ISBN 978-3-662-44061-2 ISBN 978-3-662-44062-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-44062-9 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
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Foreword
Capsule endoscopy has been the most important innovation in endoscopy since video endoscopy replaced fiber optics. It has opened the whole of the small intestine to easy, direct, and safe endoscopic vision and in so doing has stimulated the development and increased the va