What is a medical endoscope and what are its medical uses？

▶Endoscopy refers to a medical examination and treatment method that sends an instrument that can take pictures and images into the human body through a pipeline, so that the state of the tissues and organs inside the human body can be intuitively observed. Currently commonly used clinical endoscopes include gastroscopy, enteroscopy, cystoscopy, bronchoscopy, thoracoscopy, laparoscopy, etc.

▶Endoscopy is the most direct and accurate gold standard for examination. Under examinations such as gastroscopy, colonoscopy, and cystoscopy, the surface conditions of tissues and organs can be directly observed with the naked eye, and lesions that cannot be found in X-rays, CT, and MRI examinations can be displayed.

▶It is most helpful for the diagnosis of ulcers, tumors, inflammation and other diseases, and can directly take tissue pathological biopsies and even perform treatments under endoscopic conditions, such as the removal of gastric polyps, intestinal polyps, etc.

▶Thoracoscopy and laparoscopy are surgical treatments performed directly under the condition of an endoscope, including the removal of cholecystitis or other tumors, which can be performed using this endoscopic method. The trauma of treatment assisted by endoscopy is very small. Compared with ordinary thoracotomy and laparotomy surgery, endoscopic treatment is a minimally invasive surgery.