Gastroscopy – Looking Inside
Gastroscopy is the result of curiousness of human beings regarding their own body. There are historical evidences of crude instruments to explore the body’s orifices, around 5000 years old from Ancient Egypt but the early attempts to penetrate darkness was limited to throat and anus. The 19th century experiments were done on circus sword swallowers but the significant invention of flexible fibre-optic cable in 1950s led to a new era of thin flexible medical instruments and tremendous progress has been made over the past 60 years.
Gastroscopy procedure includes examination of the insides of the stomach, gullet and duodenum. This …