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Endoscopic images of a duodenal ulcer

Endoscopy means looking inside and refers to looking inside the human body for medical reasons.

Overview

It is a minimally invasive diagnostic medical procedure used to evaluate the interior surfaces of an organ by inserting a small scope in the body, often but not necessarily through a natural body opening. Through the scope, one is able to see lesions.

An instrument may not only provide an image but also enable taking small biopsies and retrieve foreign objects. Endoscopy is the vehicle for minimally invasive surgery.

Many endoscopic procedures are relatively painless and only associated with mild discomfort, though patients are sedated for most procedures. Complications are rare but may include perforation of the organ under inspection with the endoscope or biopsy instrument. If this occurs, surgery may be required to repair the injury.

Components

One can distinguish:

• using a light delivery system to illuminate the organ under inspection. Nowadays the light source is outside the body and the light is typically directed via an optical fiber system.
• transmitting the image through a lens system, and in flexible systems a fiberscope to the viewer.
• An ingestible camera, light source, and radio transmitter, called a capsule camera or video pill, Which transmits images from inside the body to a receiver and recorder for capture of the video images.
• in operative endoscopes having an additional channel to allow entry of medical instruments to biopsy or operate.

Endoscopy equipment is produced by imaging companies such as Stryker Corporation, Fujinon, PENTAX, Olympus and Karl Storz.

Types

Endoscopic equipment can be used to visualize and collect specimens from:

• The gastrointestinal tract (GI tract):
  • esophagus, stomach and duodenum (esophagogastroduodenoscopy)
  • small intestine, enteroscopy can visualize the proximal small bowel
  • colon (colonoscopy), the endoscope is used to examine the colon.
    • sigmoid colon: (proctosigmoidoscopy)
  • in an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), an endoscope is used to introduce radiographic contrast medium into the bile ducts so they can be visualized on x-ray.
• The respiratory tract
  • The nose (rhinoscopy)
  • The lower respiratory tract (bronchoscopy)
• The urinary tract (cystoscopy)
• The female reproductive system
  • The cervix (colposcopy)
  • The uterus (hysteroscopy)
  • The Fallopian tubes (Falloscopy)

• Normally closed body cavities (through a small incision):
  • The abdominal or pelvic cavity (laparoscopy)
  • The interior of a joint (arthroscopy)
  • Organs of the chest (thoracoscopy and mediastinoscopy)

• During pregnancy
  • The amnion (amnioscopy)
  • The fetus (fetoscopy)

• Non-medical uses for endoscopy
  • The planning and architectural community have found the endoscope useful for pre-visualization of scale models of proposed buildings and cities (architectural endoscopy)
  • Internal inspection of complex technical systems (borescope)

History

The first endoscope, of a kind, was developed in 1806 by Philip Bozzini with his introduction of a "Lichtleiter" (light conductor) "for the examinations of the canals and cavities of the human body". However, the Vienna Medical Society disapproved of such curiosity. Apparently an endoscope was first introduced into a human in 1853. The use of electric light was a major step in the improvement of endoscopy. The first such lights were external. Later smaller bulbs became available, making internal light possible, for instance in a hysteroscope by David in 1908. Jacobeus has been given credit for early endoscopic explorations of the abdomen and the thorax with "laparoscopy" (1912) and "thoracoscopy" (1910). Laparoscopy was used in the diagnosis of liver and gallbladder disease was by the German Heinz Kalk in the 1930s. Hope reported in 1937 on the use of laparoscopy to diagnose ectopic pregnancy. In 1944 Raoul Palmer placed his patients in the Trendelenburg position after gaseuos distention of the abdomen and thus was able to reliably perform gynecologic laparoscopy.

For diagnostic endoscopy Basil Hirschowitz invented a superior glass fiber for flexible endoscopes. The technology resulted in not only the first useful medical endoscope, but the invention revolutionized other endoscopic uses and led to practical fiberoptics.

Surgery as well as examination did not begin until the late 1970s and then only with young and 'healthy' patients. By 1980 laparoscopy training was required by gynecologists to perform tubal ligation procedures and diagnostic evaluations of the pelvis. The first laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed in 1984 and the first video-laparoscopic cholecystectomy in 1987. During the 1990s laparoscopic surgery was extended to the appendix, spleen, colon, stomach, kidney, and liver.

Recent developments

With the application of robotic systems, telesurgery was introduced as the surgeon could operate from a site physically removed from the patient. The first transatlantic surgery has been called the Lindbergh Operation.

In 2001 Given Imaging introduced the first pill-sized endoscopic capsule with a camera. Over the following years other manufacturers introduced new models with additional improvements. As of 2004, 1 cm x 2 cm endoscopic capsules can capture 0.4 megapixel video at up to 30 frames/second. They can even give doctors rotational control over the capsule to adjust the camera direction, can take tissue samples and can deliver medications to patient's body. The capsules cost upwards from $120 and can be powered by battery or wireless transmission.

See also

• angiography
• fiberscope
• robotic surgery

External links

• About robotic surgery

• Endoscopy Support Services, Inc

• Gastrolab Endoscopic images of the intestinal tract]

• FORT Imaging Systems

• MEDIT Endoscopes

• A Nasal Endoscopy

• Olympus Medical Systems

• PENTAX Medical Company

• Richard Wolf

• Karl Storz

• Endoscopy of the horse

References

• Siegler AM, Kemmann E: Hysteroscopy. Obstet Gynecol Survey 30:567-88, 1975.
• Armin Gärtner; medical technics and information technologie, Band II. Medizintechnik und Informationstechnologie, Band II. ISBN 3824909413.

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