Open AccessCAPSULE ENDOSCOPY IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF THE DISEASE OF THE INTESTINE AND COLON (review)
Author(s) -
А. А. Ликутов
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
koloproktologiâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2686-7303
pISSN - 2073-7556
DOI - 10.33878/2073-7556-2016-0-2-75-82
Subject(s) - capsule endoscopy , medicine , colonoscopy , gastroenterology , large intestine , gastrointestinal tract , capsule , colorectal cancer , endoscopy , disease , cancer , pathology , biology , botany
Colon capsule endoscopy is a minimally invasive method for diagnosis of inflammatory and neoplastic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. This study can be used as a screening method for detecting colon cancer, and in patients who either refused a colonoscopy, or it is contraindicatedfor one reason or another. The diagnostic efficiency of the method by using the second-generation colon capsule significantly increased.