Gastroenterologia

Docs can miss abnormalities captured by pill camera

Cameras-in-a-pill can capture views deep within the small intestine, but the doctors who read the results may often fail to spot abnormalities, a small study suggests. Researchers found that when they had 17 doctors view images taken during what's known as capsule endoscopy, the doctors caught fewer than half of the small intestine abnormalities on display. The researchers say the findings send a message to doctors reading images from the capsule cameras: Slow down.
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