Clinical applications of gastrointestinal endoscopy

Abstract

The ability to view the occult recesses of the human organism has moved the practice of Medicine in leaps and bounds leading to more accurate diagnoses and effective therapy. Gastrointestinal endoscopy in its current form has enabled the gastroenterologist or endoscopist to not just have access to view the inner structures of the digestive system, but to take biopsies for histological and cultural characterization, take vivid live photographs and wired same via the internet to the uttermost part of the world for a second opinion from experts or educational purposes. This brief discourse surmises the salient current usages of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy as a veritable weapon in the arsenal of the clinical Gastroenterologist.