- sonde enteroscopy
- an older type of enteroscopy using a sonde that has a balloon on the tip so that it advances by peristalsis into the distal jejunum and the ileum; it visualizes while it is being slowly withdrawn.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
sonde enteroscopy
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