Endoscopy Knowledge Centre

Colonoscopy is an endoscopic examination of the large intestine using a thin flexible camera. It diagnoses bleeding, polyps and cancer, and can remove polyps in the same sitting — preventing colon cancer before it starts.

Gastroscopy is a quick, sedated examination of the food pipe, stomach and duodenum with a thin flexible camera. It investigates acidity, ulcers, swallowing problems, bleeding and early cancer — and allows a biopsy to be taken in the same sitting.

ERCP is an advanced endoscopic procedure that treats problems of the bile and pancreatic ducts — clearing bile-duct stones, relieving blockages and placing stents — without the need for open surgery.

EUS combines endoscopy with high-resolution ultrasound to image the pancreas, bile duct and gut wall in fine detail — and to take precise, minimally invasive needle biopsies of deep lesions that are hard to reach any other way.

Endoscopic stenting places a small expandable tube to relieve a narrowed or blocked food pipe, bile duct, stomach outlet or bowel — restoring passage, relieving jaundice or allowing eating, often without open surgery.

PEG (percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy) is an endoscopic technique to place a feeding tube directly into the stomach, providing safe, comfortable nutrition for people who cannot eat normally for a prolonged period.

POEM is an advanced, incision-less endoscopic procedure that treats achalasia and related swallowing disorders by releasing the tight muscle at the lower end of the food pipe — restoring normal swallowing with no external cuts.