Research Article
Spiral Enteroscopy Utilizing Capsule Location Index for Achieving High Diagnostic and Therapeutic Yield
| Findings | (number of cases) |
| Vascular ectasia (VE) | 60 (35%) | Inflammation | 19 (11%) | Polyp | 7 (4%) | Ulcer | 7 (4%) | Mass | 7 (4%) | Benign small bowel diverticula | 6 (3.4%) | Dieulafoy’s lesion | 5 (2.8%) | Scalloping of the mucosa | 5 (2.8%) | Small bowel diverticular bleeding | 2 (1.1%) | Active bleeding of unknown cause | 2 (1.1%) | Stricture | 2 (1.1%) | Small bowel varices | 1 (0.6%) |
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Ten patients had two findings on spiral enteroscopy.
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