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Practical Approach to Video Capsule Endoscopy: Frequently Asked Questions

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This chapter attempts to give practical answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) and settings that are not related to a single chapter. The statements represent a personal view from the authors’ experience. For more details and further references, the reader is referred to the corresponding chapters

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 Internal Medicine, Bethesda Krankenhaus Bergedorf, Hamburg, Germany

    Peter Baltes & Martin Keuchel

  2. Department of Gastroenterology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

    Ian M. Gralnek

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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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Baltes, P., Gralnek, I.M., Keuchel, M. (2014). Practical Approach to Video Capsule Endoscopy: Frequently Asked Questions. In: Keuchel, M., Hagenmüller, F., Tajiri, H. (eds) Video Capsule Endoscopy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44062-9_50

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