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Endoscopy

"Endoscopy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Procedures of applying ENDOSCOPES for disease diagnosis and treatment. Endoscopy involves passing an optical instrument through a small incision in the skin i.e., percutaneous; or through a natural orifice and along natural body pathways such as the digestive tract; and/or through an incision in the wall of a tubular structure or organ, i.e. transluminal, to examine or perform surgery on the interior parts of the body.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Endoscopy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Endoscopy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 83 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 14 publications in 2017
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