Endoscopy: its diagnostic role in dyspepsia.
Fibreoptic endoscopy is now recognised as the most reliable diagnostic technique for establishing the cause of upper gastro-intestinal symptoms. However, in the UK the demand for endoscopic diagnosis far outstrips our ability to meet it and in this article an attempt is made to define how one can limit this demand so that a high diagnostic yield can be anticipated.
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Freeman Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
D004378:Duodenal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D004384:Duodenoscopy; D004415:Dyspepsia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004935:Esophageal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D004945:Esophagoscopy; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000295:instrumentation; D005773:Gastroscopy; D006801:Humans; D013272:Stomach Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis