The Watson peroral small intestinal biopsy capsule was a system used through from the 1960s to obtain small intestinal wall

biopsies A biopsy is a medical test commonly performed by a surgeon, interventional radiologist, or an interventional cardiologist. The process involves extraction of sample cells or tissues for examination to determine the presence or extent of a diseas ...

in patients with suspected coeliac disease and other diseases affecting the proximal small bowel. A similar device known as the Crosby-Kugler capsule was also developed in the 1950s and utilized for similar purposes.

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