The author describes some new milestones in technological progress of digestive endoscopy, observed in the everyday practice thanks to the FALK Symposium (Berlin, May 2006). The endoscopic diagnosis of small lesions is easier with the method of narrow band imaging (NBI), while the endoscope equipped with confocal laser microscopy provides a virtual biopsy, a histological image. The invasion of the lesions to more profound layers is determined by endosography, which is more and more adapted to perform endoscopic surgery. The feasibility and applicability of endoscopic surgery is always wider. The extension of mucosectomies is growing. In addition, there is a technical possibility to extend the mucosectomy to more profound layers, to the submucosa. The author discusses the growing distance between the level of endoscopic technology in our Hospital and in the leading hospitals of the world.
Keywords:
Endoscopía del Sistema Digestivo, Técnicas de Diagnóstico del Sistema Digestivo
Betger Z., Z. (2006). Perspectivas en la endoscopía digestiva en el mundo y en nuestro hospital. Reflexiones a proposito de un congreso. Revista Hospital Clínico Universidad De Chile, 17(2), pp. 171–6. https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7996.2006.78411
