Table 1.

Indications to perform small bowel Wireless Capsule Endoscopy

Indications for small bowel WCE in children Small bowel Crohn’s disease Diagnosis and extent evaluation Occult/obscure intestinal bleeding Small bowel polyps Familial and non-familial polyposis Malabsorption and protein losing enteropathies Celiac disease Eosinophilic and food allergic enteropathies Intestinal lymphangiectasia

Small bowel tumor Lymphoma Leiomyoma Carcinoid and other