Arab Journal of Gastroenterology
Volume 10, Issue 2 , Pages 57-62 , June 2009

The role of capsule endoscopy in obscure gastrointestinal bleeding

  • Mohamed Serag Zakaria

      Affiliations

    • Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Tropical Medicine and GI-Endoscopy Department, Kasr El-Aini Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Tel.: +20 2 3648170; fax: +20 2 5326439.
    • ,
  • Magdy Amin El-Serafy

      Affiliations

    • Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt
    • ,
  • Iman Mohamed Hamza

      Affiliations

    • Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt
    • ,
  • Khaled Serag Zachariah

      Affiliations

    • Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt
    • ,
  • Tamer Mahmoud El-Baz

      Affiliations

    • Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt
    • ,
  • Jan Bures

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Charles University, Faculty of Medicine, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
    • ,
  • Ilja Tacheci

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Charles University, Faculty of Medicine, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
    • ,
  • Stanislav Rejchrt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Charles University, Faculty of Medicine, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

Received 10 April 2009 ,Accepted 27 May 2009.

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PII: S1687-1979(09)00035-5

doi: 10.1016/j.ajg.2009.05.004

Arab Journal of Gastroenterology
Volume 10, Issue 2 , Pages 57-62 , June 2009

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