ArticleEuropean radiology2012
Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding: difficulties in comparing CT enterography and video capsule endoscopy.
Article in European radiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Helical CT-enteroclysis in the detection of small-bowel tumours: a meta-analysis.European radiology · 2013Pooled it
- Detection of small-bowel tumours with CT enteroclysis using carbon dioxide and virtual enteroscopy: A preliminary study.European radiology · 2018Article
- Role of computed tomography angiography in detection and staging of small bowel carcinoid tumors.World journal of radiology · 2015Review
- Multidisciplinary management of gastrointestinal fibrotic stenosis in Crohn's disease.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2015Review
- CT enteroclysis/enterography findings in drug-induced small-bowel damage.The British journal of radiology · 2014Article
- Evaluation and outcomes of patients with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding.World journal of gastrointestinal pathophysiology · 2014Review
- Small bowel bleeding: a comprehensive review.Gastroenterology report · 2014Review
- Update on imaging of Peutz-Jeghers syndrome.World journal of gastroenterology · 2014Review
- Prospective evaluation of magnetic resonance enterography for the detection of mesenteric small bowel tumours.European radiology · 2013Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
1 author.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
unlabelledA paper reports the results of a retrospective study that was designed to evaluate the potential role of video capsule endoscopy (VCE) in elucidating the cause of bleeding in patients with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (OGIB) for whom CT enterography was negative. The authors highlight the limitations of dual-phase CT enterography for the detection of flat lesions of the small bowel such as ulcers, angiodysplasias or arteriovenous malformations, and confirm the superiority of VCE for the detection of this category of lesions. This commentary discusses some of the issues raised. KEY POINTS: • Video capsule endoscopy surpasses CT enterography in detecting flat small bowel lesions. • Retrospective VCE and CT enterography findings in obscure bleeding need further evaluation. • A fair and unbiased comparison of the two investigations is still needed.
Indexed as
Identifiers
22447355What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.