Gastroenterology Atlas

This four images and videos displays a full colonoscopy ( withdrawal) from the cecum to the rectum. The image displays the orifice of the appendix that is one of the three parameters of the cecum. Others parameters are: the...

Bronchoscopy can be used for diagnosis or treatment Bronchoscopy is used to make a diagnosis most commonly for these conditions: persistent or unexplained cough; blood in the sputum (coughed up mucus material from the lungs);...

Lingual carcinomas may appear as an exophytic mass, an infiltrative lesion , or as a painful nonhealing ulcer, usually on the lateral aspect of the tongue. However patients may occasionally be seen with a painless mass in the substance...

A hiatal hernia occurs when a portion of the stomach prolapses through the diaphragmatic esophageal hiatus. Although the existence of hiatal hernia has been described in earlier medical literature, it has come under scrutiny only...

In this clinical case shows the relationship between intestinal metaplasia and gastric cancer, the videos are seen many islands of intestinal metaplasia. H pylori- associated chronic gastritis progresses with the following 2...

Esophageal mucosa in the foreground, gastric mucosa in the background. A hiatal hernia occurs when a portion of the stomach prolapses through the diaphragmatic esophageal hiatus. Although the existence of hiatal hernia has been...

Esophageal stenosis caused by caustic soda This 18 year-old male, at the edged of 3 suffered of esophageal burn caused by accidental swallowing of caustic soda having a caustic injury. At the edged of 4 underwent of colonic interposition...

This 34 year-old male that, two years previously was diagnosed as having colon cancer, now present a severe abdominal bulking due to a malign ascites.

A 71 year-old male who had severe epigastric pain for several days, he had been using aspirin.

A semicircular surgical needle with nylon thread is introduced through the over-tube helped with an object specially designed of malleable consistency with a magnet in the tip.