Small Bowel Enteroscopy

Small bowel cancers are difficult to diagnose. For this reason, people suspected of having small bowel cancer often undergo multiple tests and procedures to locate the cancer or rule out a cancer.

Reasons to Perform Small Bowel Enteroscopy:
Endoscopic tests involve placing a camera inside your small intestine so that your doctor can examine the inside walls. Endoscopic tests may include:

  • Upper endoscopy

  • Capsule endoscopy, which is sometimes called a pill camera

  • Single-balloon enteroscopy

  • Double-balloon enteroscopy

  • Spiral enteroscopy

Endoscopic tests, other than the capsule endoscopy, allow doctors to pass special tools into the small intestine to remove tissue samples for testing.

Source: www.mayoclinic.org