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Wireless capsule endoscopy is an emerging new method of examining the small bowel. Its indications are currently widening, and occult and gastrointestinal bleeding of obscure origin, chronic diarrhoea and malabsorption syndromes, and suspicion of a small bowel neoplasm are now accepted indications.1 Complications are rare, the main one being that it can become struck in strictures or diverticulae inaccessible to flexible endoscopic retrieval.2 The incidence in published series range from 1% to 5%, and all were managed with a surgical or endoscopic procedure.2,3
We present a complication seen in two of our patients, with no consequences to their health or management, but with an impact on examination accuracy and usefulness: oesophageal entrapment in an extra oesophageal vascular compression.
Patient 1 was a 74 year old man …