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Acquired diverticula of the small bowel are pseudodiverticula that protrude through muscular gaps in the mesenteric side of the bowel wall.

The work was first published in 2006 by Springer Medizin Verlag Heidelberg with the following title: Atlas of Video Capsule Endoscopy.

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  1. Department of Hepato-Gastroenterology, Erasme Hospital—Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

    André Van Gossum

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, Bethesda Krankenhaus Bergedorf, Hamburg, Germany

    Martin Keuchel MD

  3. Department of Gastroenterology, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

    Ervin Tόth

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Bethesda Krankenhaus Bergedorf, Academic Teaching Hospital of the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Martin Keuchel

  2. 1st Medical Department, Asklepios Klinik Altona, Academic Teaching Hospital of the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Friedrich Hagenmüller

  3. Dept. Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

    Hisao Tajiri

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Van Gossum, A., Keuchel, M., Tόth, E. (2014). Diverticula. In: Keuchel, M., Hagenmüller, F., Tajiri, H. (eds) Video Capsule Endoscopy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44062-9_20

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