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01-09-2019 | Endoscopy | Video Forum
Fluoroscopic-guided laparoscopic ileocolic resection with retrieval of retained (PillCam®) wireless capsule endoscope
Authors:
A. Siegel, J. Friedman, A. Oldham, C. Thurber, S. Larach, S. Atallah
Published in:
Techniques in Coloproctology
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Issue 9/2019
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Excerpt
Wireless capsule endoscopy (CE) was introduced in 2000 as a method to examine the portion of the alimentary tract not otherwise accessible by conventional fiber optic endoscopy [
1,
2]. In 2001, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approved a device for clinical use, PillCam
® (Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN, USA) which includes the SB2 and SB3 variants [
3]. Today, it is estimated that wireless capsule endoscopy has been successfully applied to > 500,000 patients [
4]. …