X-Nico

unusual facts about small intestine



Virtual colonoscopy

Virtual colonoscopy (VC, also called CT Colonography or CT Pneumocolon) is a medical imaging procedure which uses x-rays and computers to produce two- and three-dimensional images of the colon (large intestine) from the lowest part, the rectum, all the way to the lower end of the small intestine and display them on a screen.


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Gal Sone

When an X-ray was performed on her stomach, it appeared to be normal size, but its connection to the small intestine was larger than normal.

Metoclopramide

These gastroprokinetic effects make metoclopramide useful in the treatment of gastric stasis (for example: after gastric surgery or diabetic gastroparesis), as an aid in gastrointestinal radiographic studies by accelerating transit through the gastrointestinal system in barium studies, and as an aid in difficult intubation of the small intestine.

Nikolai Kulchitsky

In 1897 he described the endocrine cells of the small intestine which now bear his name (Kulchitsky cells).

Sprue

Coeliac disease, also known as sprue, a disease of the small intestine