The discomfort of internal gastrointestinal examination may soon be a thing of the past.
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We have developed a new type of endoscopy, which for the first time allows painless endoscopic imaging of the whole of the small bowel. This procedure involves a wireless capsule endoscope and we describe here its successful testing in humans.
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Iddan, G., Meron, G., Glukhovsky, A. et al. Wireless capsule endoscopy. Nature 405, 417 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35013140
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