Chronic diarrhoea: the indications for lower GI endoscopy when functional bowel disease is suspected

John Ong^{1

2}, Carla Swift², Ian Allwood³, Roger Norman⁴, Yasseen Al-Naeeb², Arun Shankar⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Engineering (Materials Engineering & Materials-Tissue Interactions Group), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
² Department of Gastroenterology, Bedford Hospital NHS Trust, Bedford, UK.
³ Bridge House Medical Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, UK.
⁴ Asplands Medical Centre, Woburn Sands, Milton Keynes, UK.
⁵ Department of Gastroenterology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust, Norwich, Bedfordshire, UK.

Comment

John Ong et al. Gut. 2019 Nov.

. 2019 Nov;68(11):2100.

doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2018-317574. Epub 2018 Oct 30.

John Ong^{1

2}, Carla Swift², Ian Allwood³, Roger Norman⁴, Yasseen Al-Naeeb², Arun Shankar⁵

¹ Department of Engineering (Materials Engineering & Materials-Tissue Interactions Group), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
² Department of Gastroenterology, Bedford Hospital NHS Trust, Bedford, UK.
³ Bridge House Medical Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, UK.
⁴ Asplands Medical Centre, Woburn Sands, Milton Keynes, UK.
⁵ Department of Gastroenterology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust, Norwich, Bedfordshire, UK.

No abstract available

Keywords: chronic diarrhoea; endoscopy; functional bowel disorder.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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