The history of digestive endoscopy

New Challenges in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3-28

  Niwa, Hirohumi ^a,b  

^a Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society   (Japan)

^b ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autofluorescence imaging (AFI); Fiberscope; Intragastric photography; Narrow band imaging (NBI); Rigid gastroscope; Videoendoscope

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956110860     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-78889-8_1     Document Type: Chapter

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