TY - BOOK AU - Mohamed Abdelhay Abeid AU - Ayman Yosri Abdelrahim , AU - Mohamed Serag Eldin Zakaria , AU - Mohammad Salah Abdelbary , TI - Role of capsule endoscopy in the management of chronic diarrhea / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mohamed Abdelhay Abeid , KW - Capsule endoscopy KW - Chronic diarrhea KW - Tropical N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Tropical Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - The study has shown that the most common causes of chronic diarrhea were celiac disease (20%), Crohn's disease (20%) and mass in ileum (5%). No significant complication was encontered in our studied group of patients apart from capsule retention which was passed spontaneously after several days. The results of our study suggest that capsule endoscopy is of value in the evaluation of chronic diarrhea in patients with previous negative endoscopic or radiologic workup as well as for those with no clinical or laboratory signs of acute or chronic inflammation, for an overall diagnos cyield of 45% UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -