Review: Advances in the diagnosis and treatment of small bowel lesions with Crohn’s disease using double-balloon endoscopy

With the recent development of double-balloon endoscopy (DBE) and capsule endoscopy (CE), it has become possible to observe the entire small bowel endoscopically. DBE enables us to make detailed observations and at the same time takes biopsy samples. Single-balloon endoscopy (SBE), which has a ballo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Keijiro Sunada, Hironori Yamamoto, Tomonori Yano, Kentaro Sugano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2009-11-01
Series:Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1756283X09343542