Digestive and Liver Disease
Volume 42, Issue 4 , Pages 291-296 , April 2010

Colon anatomy based on CT colonography and fluoroscopy: Impact on looping, straightening and ancillary manoeuvres in colonoscopy

  • Axel Eickhoff

      Affiliations

    • Medical Department C, Klinikum Ludwigshafen gGmbH, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Interdisciplinary Endoscopy, University Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistr. 52, D-20246 Hamburg, Germany. Tel.: +49 040 42803 3424.
    • ,
  • Perry J. Pickhardt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, WI, USA
    • ,
  • Dirk Hartmann

      Affiliations

    • Medical Department C, Klinikum Ludwigshafen gGmbH, Germany
    • ,
  • Jürgen F. Riemann

      Affiliations

    • Medical Department C, Klinikum Ludwigshafen gGmbH, Germany

Received 2 September 2008 ,Accepted 29 April 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.dld.2009.04.022

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