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1 Terminal Ileoscopy: Technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Antonello Trecca, Giuseppe Cerno, Emilio Gentile Warschauer,Gabriele Marinozzi, and Fabio Gaj

2 The Importance of Complete Colonoscopy and Explorationof the Cecal Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Kuangi Fu, Takahiro Fujii, Takahisa Matsuda, and Yutaka Saito

3 What are the Correct Indications for Ileoscopy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Antonello Trecca, Fabio Gaj, Stefano Serafini, Gabriele Marinozzi,and Marco Silano

4 Contribution of New Technologies to Endoscopic Imaging . . . . . . . 21Giuseppe Galloro, Luca Magno, Simona Ruggiero, Ferdinando Fusco,and Tiziana Rappa

5 Ileoscopy in Coeliac Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Marco Silano, Emilio Gentile Warschauer, Gabriele Marinozzi,Giuseppe Cerno, and Antonello Trecca

6 The Role of Ileoscopy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease . . . . . . . . . . 35Bjorn Rembacken and Mohammed Thoufeeq

7 Ileoscopy in the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Roberto Lorenzetti, Angelo Mario Zullo, and Cesare Hassan

8 Results of Ileoscopy in Pediatric Patients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Paola De Angelis, Erminia Romeo, Filippo Torroni, andLuigi Dall’Oglio

9 The Role of Histology in Small Bowel Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53Vincenzo Villanacci and Gabrio Bassotti

10 Radiological Diagnosis of Small-Bowel Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Laura Maria Minordi, Amorino Vecchioli, Luigi Larosa,and Lorenzo Bonomo

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11 Capsule Endoscopy: The Answer to a Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Emanuele Rondonotti and Roberto de Franchis

12 Double-Balloon Enteroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73Alessandro Mussetto and Tino Casetti

13 Single-Balloon Enteroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79Mauro Manno, Raffaele Manta, and Rita Conigliaro

14 Spiral Enteroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87Mauro Manno, Raffaele Manta, and Rita Conigliaro

15 Surgery for Small-Bowel Disease. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91Ugo Grossi, Andrea Mazzari, Pasquina MC Tomaiuolo,Giuseppe Brisinda, and Antonio Crucitti

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

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