[Digestive endoscopy in children].
Also in the pediatric population the digestive endoscopy became, at this point, a very good diagnostic and operative technique largement used. The endoscopy can explore the upper gastrointestinal tract (esophagus, stomach, duodenum and jejunum) and can investigate the colon and the terminal ileum regarding the lower gastrointestinal tract. Principally, the operative endoscopy concerns emostasis of gastrointestinal bleeding, polipectomy, extraction of foreign bodies, and intestinal dilatations. The patients population submitted to this investigation by now is very wide thanks to the modernization of the instruments and at specialization of gastroenterologist pediatricians: range from newborn, to childhood, adolescence and young adults. The gastroenterologist pediatricians specialization associated to a routine use of amnemonic drugs (benzodiazepine) reduced at the minimum the invasivity of endoscopy; this technique can be considered a good safe procedure and free of important physical and psychic side effects for the young patient.
Manfredi
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Servizio di Gastroenterologia ed Endoscopia Digestiva, Istituto Policattedra di Pediatria Università degli Studi di Parma.
Fornaroli
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F
Bacchini
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PL
Romanini
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E
Esposito
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G
Torroni
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F
Lombardi
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M
Ferzetti
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A
de' Angelis
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GL
D002648:Child; D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans