title: Gastrointestinal endoscopy: past and future.
abstract: The former editor of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy reflects on the history of endoscopy, which reveals much about the mechanisms whereby innovation occurred, and attempts to forecast the future. Endoscopic technological development in most industrialised countries will be determined largely by various combinations of many external factors together with the further development of virtual imaging.
authors.affiliation: Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA. mvs4@case.edu
authors.forename: M V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Sivak
mesh_terms: D020776:Endoscopes, Gastrointestinal / Q000639:trends; D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D012109:Research Support as Topic / Q000639:trends