Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Volume 56, Issue 2 , Pages 190-194 , August 2002

Minimizing postcolonoscopy abdominal pain by using CO2 insufflation: A prospective, randomized, double blind, controlled trial evaluating a new commercially available CO2 delivery system

Presented in part at Digestive Disease Week, May 20-23, 2001, Atlanta, Georgia (Gastrointest Endosc 2001;53:AB76).

Received 6 September 2001 ,Revised 20 November 2001 ,Accepted 12 December 2001.

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☆ Reprint requests: Professor Richard H. Hunt, MD, Division of Gastroenterology, McMaster University Medical Center, 1200 Main St. West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5.

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