From Chicago, Ill., at a meeting of the Radiological Society of North America
Compared with other parts of the digestive tract, the small intestine is difficult for doctors to access. While a camera-tipped tube slipped down the throat can get images of the stomach and a tube inserted at the other end of the tract reveals the large intestine, no such device reaches into most of the small intestine.
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