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 3

Diagnostic yields of DBE between adults and elderly patients with incomplete small bowel obstruction.

	Adults N = 141; ( (%))	Elderly N = 36; ( (%))
Normal	18 (12.8)	4 (11.1)	0.786
Adenocarcinoma	10 (7.1)	7 (19.4)	0.038
Lymphoma	15 (10.6)	3 (8.3)	0.676
GISTs	9 (6.4)	3 (8.3)	0.685
Crohn’s disease	33 (23.4)	3 (8.3)	0.045
Intestinal tuberculosis	15 (10.6)	6 (16.7)	0.336
Behcet’s disease	13 (9.2)	4 (11.1)	0.735
CMUSE	22 (15.6)	4 (11.1)	0.497
Others	6 (4.3)	2 (5.6)	0.744