Other names: gastroscopy, oral panendoscopy, esophagogastroduodenoscopy.

 

What´s the procedure: this consists in inserting a flexible endoscope through the mouth and explores using a camera the walls of the upper digestive tract, which includes the esophagus, stomach and duodenum.

The test is performed under controlled sedation by a specialist in intensive care physician anesthesia.

 

Preparation: You have to be fasting seven hours prior to the test, no solids and liquids. You can drink water up to 3 hours before the test.

 

Options:

• During the procedure samples of tissue can be taken for histological or microbiological study.

• Sampling for helicobacter pylori

 

Image Magnification

Resulting from the application of technological improvements to conventional endoscopy. This allows us to identify polyps and other preneoplastic lesions when they are still microscopic.

 

Chromo endoscopy

The application of vital dyes such as lugol, red carmine or methylene blue is classically used in medicine and especially in endoscopy. These dyes are capable of being selectively absorbed by cells and not by others. With this we can detect premalignant lesions such as Barrett's esophagus, enhance flat polyps difficult to see under normal conditions or detected early neoplasms, this term is especially useful in the early gastric neoplasms in risk groups. A circumstance in which the patient develops directly colon cancer without the intermediate scaled to imply the presence of polyp.