Table 1.
Clinical characteristics of patients who underwent retrograde double-balloon enteroscopy for Meckel's diverticulum.
| Case number | Age (y)/sex | Symptoms/course of disease | The lowest Hb (g/dl) | Prior examinations |
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| 1 | 7/M | Recurrent GI bleeding/3 years | 6.0 | Tc-99 scan, 3 times Abdominal US Upper endoscopy Colonoscopy GI barium meal Capsule endoscopy CT scan |
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| 2 | 10/F | Recurrent GI bleeding/3 months | 5.6 | Tc-99 scan, 1 time Abdominal US Upper endoscopy Colonoscopy CT scan |
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| 3 | 6/M | Recurrent GI bleeding/1 month | 6.3 | Tc-99 scan, 2 times Abdominal US Upper endoscopy Colonoscopy Capsule endoscopy CT scan |
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| 4 | 12/M | Recurrent GI bleeding/7 months | 10.6 | Tc-99 scan, 1 time Abdominal US Upper endoscopy Colonoscopy Capsule endoscopy CT scan |
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| 5 | 11/M | GI bleeding/4 days | 5.1 | Tc-99 scan, 2 times Abdominal US Upper endoscopy |
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| 6 | 8/M | Recurrent GI bleeding/1 year | 5.8 | Tc-99 scan, 1 time Abdominal US Upper endoscopy Colonoscopy CT scan |