Gastrointestinal

ENDOSCOPIC EXAMINATION

Q. We hear so much about the endoscope these days. What is it, and what does examination entail? A. The endoscopes suddenly swirled across the medical horizon in the late 1960s, and during the 1970s became the most widely used form of investigation by the gastro-enterologists, the doctors who specialise in disorders of the G.I. [...]