Endoscopic Video Capsules: Radiologic Findings of Spontaneous Entrapment in Small Intestinal Diverticula
Ron C. Gaba1,
Paul K. Schlesinger2 and
Andrew C. Wilbur1
1 Department of Radiology (M/C 931), University of Illinois Medical Center at
Chicago, 1740 W. Taylor St., Chicago, IL 60612.
2 Department of Medicine, Section of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition (M/C 716),
University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612.

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Fig. 1A 60-year-old woman undergoing wireless capsule endoscopy.
Magnified view from barium small bowel follow-through shows large distal ileal
diverticulum (long arrow) and smaller duodenal diverticulum
(short arrow).
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Fig. 1B 60-year-old woman undergoing wireless capsule endoscopy.
Photograph shows wireless video capsule (M2A capsule, Given Imaging).
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Fig. 1C 60-year-old woman undergoing wireless capsule endoscopy.
Frontal abdominal radiograph reveals two endoscopic video capsules in right
lower quadrant.
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Fig. 1D 60-year-old woman undergoing wireless capsule endoscopy.
Axial (D) and reconstructed coronal (E) unenhanced CT images
show one of the two endoscopic capsules (arrow) lodged within rounded
small-bowel diverticulum.
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Fig. 1E 60-year-old woman undergoing wireless capsule endoscopy.
Axial (D) and reconstructed coronal (E) unenhanced CT images
show one of the two endoscopic capsules (arrow) lodged within rounded
small-bowel diverticulum.
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Fig. 1F 60-year-old woman undergoing wireless capsule endoscopy.
Radiograph shows characteristic lantern-shaped appearance of video capsules.
Scale: horizontal = 0.5 cm; vertical = 1.0 cm.
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