The Diagnostic Yields and Safety of Double-Balloon Enteroscopy in Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding and Incomplete Small Bowel Obstruction: Comparison between the Adults and Elderly

Table 2

Diagnostic yields of DBE between adults and elderly patients with OGIB.

	Adults; ( (%))	Elderly; ( (%))
Normal	89 (15.1)	16 (14.3)	0.817
Adenocarcinoma	33 (5.6)	8 (7.1)	0.527
Lymphoma	37 (6.3)	7 (6.3)	0.986
GISTs	52 (8.8)	9 (8.0)	0.781
Meckel’s diverticulum	27 (4.6)	1 (0.9)	0.032
Polyps	76 (12.9)	15 (13.4)	0.893
Crohn’s disease	76 (12.9)	11 (9.8)	0.361
Intestinal tuberculosis	28 (4.8)	4 (3.6)	0.580
Behcet’s disease	27 (4.6)	5 (4.5)	0.953
Angioectasia	105 (17.9)	29 (25.9)	0.048
Nonspecific enteritis	27 (4.6)	4 (3.6)	0.736
Others	11 (1.9)	3 (2.7)	0.621