Clinical experience with colon capsule endoscopy ( PillCam © Colon ) in the study of colonic pathologies at the Clínica Universitaria San Juan de Dios in
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1 Gastroenterologist, Associate Professor of Gastroenterology at the Universidad de Cartagena in Cartegena, Colombia and at the University of Paris VII in Paris, France. Chief of Gastroenterology at the Clínica Universitaria San Juan de Dios in Cartagena, Colombia 2 Second year Internal Medicine Resident at the Universidad del Sinú in the Cartagena section, Student in the Master’s Degree Program in Clinical Epidemiology at the National University of Colombia in the Clínica Universitaria San Juan de Dios in Cartagena, Colombia
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