RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Gastrointestinal endoscopy: past and future
JF Gut
JO Gut
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Society of Gastroenterology
SP 1061
OP 1064
DO 10.1136/gut.2005.086371
VO 55
IS 8
A1 Sivak, M V
YR 2006
UL http://gut.bmj.com/content/55/8/1061.1.abstract
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