Reporting the small bowel examination

Small-bowel enema. An underutilized method of small-bowel examination.

The results of 88 consecutive small-bowel enemas were compared retrospectively with the results of 52 routine small-bowel series and 50 barium enemas done in the same patients. Ninety-six percent of the diagnoses made by small-bowel enema were correct, as compared to only 65% made by routine small-bowel series. The incorrect studies were mostly false negatives and the abnormalities missed inclu...

Radiological examination of the small bowel.

A retrospective study was made of 100 consecutive dedicated per-oral small bowel examinations. 33% of the studies were abnormal, of which almost half were due to Crohn's disease. When grouped according to clinical suspicion, 73.5% of those studies with a high index of clinical suspicion were abnormal. In the abnormal group a correct diagnosis was made in 90%, with two false positives. In the no...

Practical Lessons from the Small Bowel Bleeding Lesions: A Case Report on Small Bowel Cavernous Hemangioma

Olympus capsule endoscopy for small bowel examination.

The video capsule endoscope has been developed to allow for direct examination of the small bowel in a safe, noninvasive and well-tolerated manner. The Olympus capsule endoscope, recently developed, with technology based on a charge-coupled device (CCD) and with electronic enhancement of image quality, differs from the Given capsule by a high-resolution CCD and an external real-time image viewe...

practical lessons from the small bowel bleeding lesions: a case report on small bowel cavernous hemangioma

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