page_title: Double-balloon enteroscopy
section_title: Advantages and disadvantages
hierarchical_section_title: Double-balloon enteroscopy / Advantages and disadvantages
caption_attribution_description: English: Original description: Endoscopic image of polyp in small bowel detected on double balloon enteroscopy. Released into public domain on permission of patient -- Samir धर्म 08:36, 7 June 2006 (UTC). This image appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 7 June 2006.
context_page_description: Double-balloon enteroscopy, also known as push-and-pull enteroscopy is an endoscopic technique for visualization of the small bowel. It was developed by Hironori Yamamoto in 2001. It is novel in the field of diagnostic gastroenterology as it is the first endoscopic technique that allows for the entire gastrointestinal tract to be visualized in real time.
context_section_description: Double-balloon enteroscopy offers a number of advantages to other small bowel image techniques, including barium imaging, wireless capsule endoscopy and push enteroscopy:
  It allows for visualization of the entire small bowel to the terminal ileum.
  It allows for the application of therapeutics.
  It allows for the sampling or biopsying of small bowel mucosa, for the resection of polyps of the small bowel, and in the placement of stents or dilatation of strictures of the small bowel.
  It allows for access to the papilla in patients with long afferent limbs after Billroth II antrectomy.
  The key disadvantage of double-balloon enteroscopy is the time required to visualize the small bowel; this can exceed three hours, and may require that patients be admitted to hospital for the procedure.  There have also been case reports of acute pancreatitis and intestinal necrosis associated with the technique.
caption: Endoscopic image of polyp in small bowel detected on double-balloon enteroscopy.
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