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.
Division of Gastroenterology, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center of Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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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