Video Capsule Endoscopy looks at the inside of your small bowel: you swallow a capsule that contains a small disposable camera, which takes thousands of pictures as it travels along your gut. These pictures are captured and stored on a data
recorder that you wear on your waist. The capsule itself, does not need to be retrieved and is excreted from the body when you poo. ERCP (Endoscopic Retrograde
Small bowel capsule endoscopy image adapted from: https:// patient.gastro.org/small-bowel-capsule-endoscopy/
CholangioPancreatography) combines endoscopy and a scan to examine / treat conditions of the biliary system (liver, gall bladder, pancreas, pancreatic and bile ducts). PTC (Percutaneous Transhepatic Cholangiography) a procedure usually carried out in the scanning department (radiology) that may combines both scope and scan to examine / treat conditions of the biliary system (liver, gall bladder, pancreas, pancreatic and bile ducts). Cystoscopy looks inside the bladder by passing a thin camera called a cystoscope through the urethra (the tube that carries pee out of the body). This procedure may also be used to insert stents into a blocked or narrowed ureter (the tubes that carry pee from the kidneys to the bladder).
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