title: [Diagnostic and therapeutic enteroscopy. Its current status].
abstract: In many gastroenterological departments, the push-enteroscopy has become a well-established method to investigate the small bowel. Compared to the sonde-enteroscopy, this method has the advantage of offering the opportunity to intervene (e.g., taking biopsies, polypectomy, electrocoagulation) since the push-enteroscope has a working channel. The main indication for an endoscopic procedure is still the search for intestinal sources of bleeding after more frequent sources in the gastrointestinal tract have been ruled out. Other diagnostic and therapeutic indications are less frequent. In this overview we will first describe the procedure. Then we will review the most recent diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of the push-enteroscopy and compare it to other procedures.
authors.affiliation: Medizinische Klinik C, Klinikum der Stadt Ludwigshafen gGmbH, Ludwigshafen am Rhein. MedCLu@t-online.de
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Benz
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Riemann
mesh_terms: D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007410:Intestinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000473:pathology*