The book ends with a chapter on the recently devised colonic CamPill by Muñoz-Navas and his team from the University of Navarra. They show that pill-colonoscopy is a feasible and safe procedure which in most cases allows screening of the entire colon.
Dictionaries describe an atlas as a “bound collection of plates illustrating any subject”. As such, the quality of the illustrations is of paramount importance in a book of this kind. The authors have succeeded in gathering a series of images of excellent definition from all parts of the gut. Particularly impressive are those of small flat ulcerations and aphtous lesions, vascular ectasias and small tumors which went unrecognized until now. There are many pictures of the different types of capsules as well as clear algorithmic depictions of various decision-making situations. The authors show that we can confidently predict that capsule endoscopy will replace most of the current endoscopes for screening, diagnosis and follow-up purposes in the near future.
Miguel Mascarenhas Saraiva and Juan Manuel Herrerías are to be heartily congratulated for producing such a valuable book. It should be required reading and readily available for all those interested in gastrointestinal endoscopy, including medical and surgical gastroenterologists and general internists.
Dictionaries describe an atlas as a “bound collection of plates illustrating any subject”. As such, the quality of the illustrations is of paramount importance in a book of this kind. The authors have succeeded in gathering a series of images of excellent definition from all parts of the gut. Particularly impressive are those of small flat ulcerations and aphtous lesions, vascular ectasias and small tumors which went unrecognized until now. There are many pictures of the different types of capsules as well as clear algorithmic depictions of various decision-making situations. The authors show that we can confidently predict that capsule endoscopy will replace most of the current endoscopes for screening, diagnosis and follow-up purposes in the near future.
Miguel Mascarenhas Saraiva and Juan Manuel Herrerías are to be heartily congratulated for producing such a valuable book. It should be required reading and readily available for all those interested in gastrointestinal endoscopy, including medical and surgical gastroenterologists and general internists.
Francisco Vilardell MD DSc FRCP FRCP (Ed) FACP
Director Emeritus, Postgraduate School of Gastroenterology,
Autonomous University, Hospital Sant Pau, Barcelona