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Will the 13 C‐octanoic acid breath test ever replace scintigraphy as the gold standard to assess gastric emptying?
Author(s) -
Verbeke K.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
neurogastroenterology and motility
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.489
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1365-2982
pISSN - 1350-1925
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2982.2009.01388.x
Subject(s) - gastric emptying , breath test , gold standard (test) , scintigraphy , medicine , population , gastroenterology , nuclear medicine , stomach , environmental health , helicobacter pylori
The applicability of the 13 C‐octanoic acid breath test for the assessment of gastric emptying is discussed. In the current issue of this journal, Keller and her colleagues described the application of different mathematical models for analysis of the 13 C‐octanoic acid test in a very large patient population.