What's the Role of Capsule Video Endoscopy in Acute GI Bleeding? and Where it should be

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International Journal of Gastroenterology Disorders & Therapy Volume 2 (2015), Article ID 2:IJGDT-111, 1 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2393-8498/2015/111

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What's the Role of Capsule Video Endoscopy in Acute GI Bleeding? and Where it should be

Hong-Zen Yeh^1*, Yen-Chun Peng^1,2 and Wai-Keung Chow³

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
²National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
³Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Corresponding Author Details: Dr. Hong-Zen Yeh, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, 40705, Taiwan; E-mail: yhz@vghtc.gov.tw

Received: 03 December 2014; Accepted: 17 January 2015; Published: 19 January 2015

Citation: Yeh HZ, Peng YC, Chow WK (2015) What's the Role of Capsule Video Endoscopy in Acute GI Bleeding? and Where it should be. Int J Gastroenterol Disord Ther 2: 111. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2393-8498/2015/111

Copyright: © 2015 Yeh et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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