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To the Editor: Although its purpose was to extol the use of video-capsule endoscopy, Case 24-2004 in the July 29 issue¹ illustrates the greed for certainty that feeds the increasing costs of medical care. The pictures are educational, but an enteroclysis one month earlier had displayed the lesion — in black and white, to be sure, rather than in living color — and that should have been enough to warrant laparotomy. After that, a computed tomographic scan confirmed it, and then the clearly supernumerary mesenteric angiography followed.

From a heuristic standpoint, I suppose, all the studies may have been justified, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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