Prospective Study
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World J Gastroenterol. Jun 21, 2015; 21(23): 7297-7304
Published online Jun 21, 2015. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v21.i23.7297
Different roles of capsule endoscopy and double-balloon enteroscopy in obscure small intestinal diseases
Zhi-Hong Zhang, Chun-Hua Qiu, Yi Li
Zhi-Hong Zhang, Chun-Hua Qiu, Yi Li, Department of Gastroenterology, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, Sichuan Provincial Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu 610072, Sichuan Province, China
Author contributions: Zhang ZH was involved in designing the study, collecting the data, drafting the article, and making the critical revisions; Qiu CH supplied partial economic support, and took part in designing the study and revising the manuscript; Li Y provided technical support and gave some critical suggestions for revising the article; all members participated in the procedure.
Ethics approval: This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of Sichuan Province Institution, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital Institutional Review Board.
Clinical trial registration: This study is registered at the Chinese Clinical Trail Registry. The registration identification number is ChiCTR-DCD-15005999.
Informed consent: All study participants, or their legal guardian, provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest: No potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article were reported.
Data sharing: The technical support and dataset available at 750725308@qq.com, zyqch730@163.com and 1187201149@qq.com. The participants’ consent was not obtained; The presented data are anonymized and the risk of identification is low. No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Chun-Hua Qiu, MD, Department of Gastroenterology, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, Sichuan Provincial Academy of Medical Sciences, No. 32 Yihuan Road, Chengdu 610072, Sichuan Province, China. zyqch730@163.com
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Received: January 28, 2015
Peer-review started: January 29, 2015
First decision: February 10, 2015
Revised: February 27, 2015
Accepted: April 28, 2015
Article in press: April 28, 2015
Published online: June 21, 2015
Core Tip

Core tip: Until now, because of the expensive cost and difficult technology, a study of capsule endoscopy (CE) followed by double-balloon enteroscopy (DBE) simultaneously in one case has been rarely reported. To assess the role of CE and DBE in the diagnosis of small bowel diseases, this study was designed to choose the more appropriate examination (between CE and DBE) for obscure small bowel diseases.