Intraoperative enteroscopy. Indications and techniques.
This article reviews the role on intraoperative enteroscopy (IOE) in the management and evaluation of patients with chronic transfusion-dependent gastrointestinal bleeding who have not responded to standard diagnostic and therapeutic techniques. Intraoperative enteroscopy may be performed with a standard or pediatric colonoscope, push enteroscope, or a sonde enteroscope at the time of laparotomy. IOE techniques as well as indications, diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities, and complications of this procedure are discussed.
Cave
D R
DR
Division of Gastroenterology, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center of Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Cooley
J S
JS
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D020776:Endoscopes, Gastrointestinal; D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007410:Intestinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000473:pathology; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods