Endoscopy: The miraculous invention in the field of medicine

The device of endoscopy in the medical science is a miracle which has made it possible to detect the growth of underlying diseases and treat them. It’s supposed to be doctor’s third eye. This item throws a glance of different types of endoscopy.

Just imagine that you have some problem developing inside your body and suddenly you get the divine eye through which your eye can rove inside your body to pinpoint where the problem lies, can touch, apply medicines over the affected part and remove off that problem lock, stock and barrel?

Yes, this also is possible today. Now such a technique has been developed and the name of this technique is ‘endoscopy’ giving a newer dimension to the surgery and the area of treatment of diseases. Let’s have a look over the different kinds of endoscopy:

Arhroscopy

This is used to peep into the joints. As for that, it’s mostly used in treating joints but besides this, it could also be used in wrists, shoulders and knees. It was brought to use initially to treat the disease within the knees, as for example disorder in the internal structure of joints, rheumatoid arthritis and injuries etc. Now through this medium, treatment to several diseases could be undertaken.

Bronchoscopy

It is brought in use to observe the respiratory tracts. There are two types of bronchooscopy which is inserted through the passages of nose and mouth which are as follows:

Flexible bronchoscope: This tube easily bends like rubber which sent to the respiratory tracts. The patient needs no anaesthesia at the times of its insertion because it’s so elastic. Only the passages of mouth and nose are numbed by applying medicines on them.
Stiff bronchoscope: It’s size is comparatively too larger than the above machine. It’s sent into the respiratory tract of the patient after anaesthetising him completely.

Use of bronchoscopy: With its uses, TB, pneumonia, and bronchitis types of diseases could be identified. Besides this, the piece of the internal portion, phlegm, or any other secretion are also collected.

Colonoscopy

The big intestine the length of which is around 6 feet can keep its diseases well beneath itself such as cancer, tumour, or polyp, swelling and ulceration etc. With the help of colonoscopy, it’s possible to insert a long and elastic tube to pass trough the anus and reach through this tube on the convergent point where the big and the small intestines both meet to observe the blood present in the intestine or any other kind of secretion oozing out therein thus facilitating to flush them out of the system, or to remove off small tumour or polyp or taking a piece from the suspicious area for the biopsy testing. All these types of functions are very smoothly carried over by the Colonoscopy.

Cystoscopy

Endoscopy of the urinary bladder via urethra is actually called Cystoscopy which is undertaken with the help of a cystoscope. Through this procedure, investigation inside the urinary tracts and urinary bladder are carried out. Both the types of elastic and the stiff mini telescopes are available in this. But, generally the stiff type of mini telescope is used.

It’s possible to investigate from the children to the aged persons through the help of cystoscopy. This machine helps easily detect stone, cancer and obstruction in urinary tract as well as tumour of urinary bladder, stone perforation or any other disorder.

Gastroscopy

This is the mostly used testing method through which, the entire internal parts of food pipe and the duodenum become distinctly visible. This test is growing relevant these days in the majority of the diseases pertaining to stomach.

Cure of obstruction in food pipe and cancer, peptic ulcer arising out of gastritis’s, cancer, perforation and duodenal ulcer are simple to be 100 % treated under an expert hand.

Apart from this, biopsy of the tumour, desiccating the warts of food pipe, and extricating out the foreign elements present in the stomach is perfectly carried out by the gastroscopy machine.

Laproscopy

This is also called Peritoneoscopy which used inside to make observations inside the intestine, liver, kidney and female organs.

For this test, a small slit below the naval of the patient is incised through which the mini telescope is inserted inside the organs. Through this technique, the chronic diseases of the stomach and numerous diseases of the female organs are treated. These days, with the help of this machine, gall bladder, appendix, or ovary removal has become simpler.