The Society of Gastroenterological Endoscopy in Japan has been leading the world in the field of endoscopic diagnosis and now we are in the top group of the endoscopic treatment. The progress in this field is remarkable, and new research fruit is used in the clinical setting.
In our national hospitals also, the new methods recently developed have been immediately applied. But this owes to the effort of gastroenterologists, who apply the progress to bedside rapidly and who, in spite of being under rather poor circumstances, have been keeping the high medical level as a result of prompt application of the new ideas to the daily works.
Endoscope can be utilized in various ways according to the kind of organ, purpose of it's usage or techniques, and developed many type of apparatus consequently. The concept of gastroendoscopy is far beyond important in the meaning of diagnostic procedure, and now we come to think endoscopic procedure is a part of the surgery.
The indivisual titles of this symposium shows these concepts. We often used to require emergent surgery in esophageal varices or gastrointestinal bleeding. Surgery has been definite procedure in the treatment of almost all malignancies.
The choledochal drainage for the obstructive jaundice, polypectomy were the advance field of surgery. No one had imagined that a gallbladder could be extracted without laparotomy. Laser treatment to the advanced cancer propose the new source for improvement of quality of life for patients. Endoscopic ultrasonography is not only for the diagnostic procedure but also decision of indication whether endoscopic therapy for malignant tumor is useful.
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