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Gastroenterology Research and Practice
Volume 2015, Article ID 952787, 8 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/952787
Clinical Study

Beneficial Effects of Combining Computed Tomography Enteroclysis/Enterography with Capsule Endoscopy for Screening Tumor Lesions in the Small Intestine

Hiroaki Shibata,1 Shinichi Hashimoto,1 Kensaku Shimizu,2 Ryo Kawasato,1 Tomohiro Shirasawa,1 Takayuki Yokota,1 Hideko Onoda,2 Takeshi Okamoto,1 Jun Nishikawa,1 Naofumi Matsunaga,2 and Isao Sakaida1

1Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1-1 Minami-Kogushi, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8505, Japan
2Department of Radiology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1-1 Minami-Kogushi, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8505, Japan

Received 3 October 2014; Revised 18 December 2014; Accepted 21 December 2014

Academic Editor: Vikram Kate

Copyright © 2015 Hiroaki Shibata et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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