DIAGNOSTIC GASTROSCOPY
- 3 August 1935
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 105 (5) , 352-355
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1935.02760310026007
Abstract
My purpose in this paper is to describe the flexible gastroscope, to discuss the technic of examination with this instrument, and to emphasize its simplicity and value. The diagnosis of internal disease has always been hampered by the impossibility of seeing the involved organs. The advent of cystoscopy marked a great step forward in the diagnosis of pathologic conditions of the urinary tract; proctoscopy made a similar contribution to the diagnosis of diseases of the rectum, and bronchoscopy likewise to diseases of the bronchi. All attempts to devise a simple and practical method for direct inspection of the interior of the stomach, however, were relatively unsuccessful, owing to the difficult anatomic problems involved, until final success was attained with the perfection of the flexible gastroscope in 1932. HISTORY In 1868 Kussmaul,1the first to attempt gastroscopy, used a rigid open tube, which he introduced into the stomach of aKeywords
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