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Wireless capsule endoscopy

2000; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 405; Issue: 6785 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/35013140

1476-4687

Gavriel J. Iddan, Gavriel Meron, Arkady Glukhovsky, Paul Swain,

Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments

The discomfort of internal gastrointestinal examination may soon be a thing of the past. We have developed a new type of endoscopy, which for the first time allows painless endoscopic imaging of the whole of the small bowel. This procedure involves a wireless capsule endoscope and we describe here its successful testing in humans.