Advances in Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Endoscopy

Endoscopy

An endoscopy may help your doctor determine what's causing digestive signs and symptoms, like nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, difficulty swallowing and gastrointestinal bleeding. Scopes have a small camera attached to an extended , thin tube. The doctor moves it through a body passageway or opening to ascertain inside an organ. Sometimes scopes are used for surgery, like for removing polyps from the colon.

• Arthroscopy: joints


• Bronchoscopy: lungs


• Colonoscopy and sigmoidoscopy: large intestine


• Cystoscopy and ureteroscopy: urinary system


• Laparoscopy: abdomen or pelvis


• Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy: esophagus and stomach