PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Sivak, M V
TI  - Gastrointestinal endoscopy: past and future
AID  - 10.1136/gut.2005.086371
DP  - 2006 Aug 01
TA  - Gut
PG  - 1061--1064
VI  - 55
IP  - 8
4099  - http://gut.bmj.com/content/55/8/1061.1.short
4100  - http://gut.bmj.com/content/55/8/1061.1.full
SO  - Gut2006 Aug 01; 55
AB  - 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