Enteroscopy.
Enteroscopy in the new millennium will involve the development of instruments and accessories to allow deeper therapeutic intervention in the small bowel. There are also four new areas of development that involve the field of enteroscopy. These areas are the development of improved push enteroscopes, the development of laparoscopically assisted enteroscopy, the development of virtual enteroscopy, and gene research in the field of vascular anomalies of the gut.
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Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY 10128, USA.
D020776:Endoscopes, Gastrointestinal; D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal / Q000639:trends; D004867:Equipment Design; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007410:Intestinal Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000098:blood supply / Q000601:surgery*; D010535:Laparoscopy; D014584:User-Computer Interface