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Colon Capsule Endoscopy in Special Situations

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Traditional colonoscopy is the gold standard for evaluation of the colon for polyps, cancer, and inflammation. Applied with high expertise and a high technical standard, it is an accurate, safe diagnostic and therapeutic procedure with a high success rate, but between 4.2 and 19 % of colonoscopies are reported to be incomplete [1–3]. Considering the large number of screening colonoscopies worldwide, this percentage leads to a significant amount of incomplete procedures—such as more than 20,000 in 6 years in Ontario, Canada [4].

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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Triantafyllou, K., Baltes, P., Keuchel, M. (2014). Colon Capsule Endoscopy in Special Situations. In: Keuchel, M., Hagenmüller, F., Tajiri, H. (eds) Video Capsule Endoscopy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44062-9_49

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