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Review
. 2006 Aug;55(8):1061-4.
doi: 10.1136/gut.2005.086371.

Gastrointestinal endoscopy: past and future

M V Sivak  1
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Review

Gastrointestinal endoscopy: past and future

M V Sivak. Gut. 2006 Aug.

Abstract

The former editor of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy reflects on the history of endoscopy, which reveals much about the mechanisms whereby innovation occurred, and attempts to forecast the future. Endoscopic technological development in most industrialised countries will be determined largely by various combinations of many external factors together with the further development of virtual imaging.

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Conflict of interest: None declared.

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