title: Laparoscopic approach for the retrieval of retained video capsule endoscopy.
abstract: Video capsule endoscopy is now a first-line tool in evaluating and diagnosing gastrointestinal bleeding, inflammatory bowel disease, and small bowel neoplasms. Capsule nonpassage or retention is an uncommon but clinically significant occurrence. How to best retrieve these retained capsules is currently being debated. We report a laparoscopic approach for the retrieval of a retained capsule in the terminal ileum.
authors.affiliation: Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, and St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
authors.forename: Edward P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Dominguez
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Isaac L
authors.initials: IL
authors.lastname: Raijman
authors.forename: John F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Sweeney
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D053704:Capsule Endoscopy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D020878:Device Removal; D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007082:Ileum; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*