[...]... Hirschowitz and Curtiss two-glass drawn-fiber method of production (Fig 1. 14), were able by 19 71 onwards to produce highly robust colonoscopes (Fig 1. 15) These were capable of acute tip angulation without damage to the fibers, and had an innovative “flag-handle” method of controlling four-way angulation (Fig 1. 16), although 10 Section 1: General Aspects of Colonoscopy (a) Fig 1. 16 ACMI F9A “flag-handle coloscope”... examination and treatment of the diseases of the rectum and sigmoid flexure Ann Surg 18 95; 21: 468–78 7 Pennington JR Inflating rectal specula JAMA 18 99; 30, 8 71 4 8 Turell R Diseases of the Colon and Anorectum, Vol 1, 2nd edn Saunders, Philadelphia-London-Toronto, 19 69: 18 8 9 Turell R Fiber optic colonoscope and sigmiodoscope, preliminary report Am J Surg 19 63; 10 5: 13 3–5 10 Niwa H The limits of endoscopy and. .. flexible shaft and needed a forward-oblique-viewing lens Oblique viewing was adopted to compensate for the narrow visual angle of the forward-viewing model, resulting from the limited Chapter 1: History of Endoscopy in the Rectum and Colon (a) 11 Fig 1. 19 “Rotating prism” colonofiberscopeaside-viewing with 30° view (Niwa et al., 19 66) (b) (c) Fig 1. 18 (a) The prototype forward- plus side-viewing colonofiberscope... sliding tube for colonoscopy that can be attached and removed during the examination [in Japanese with English abstract] Gastroenterol Endosc 19 78; 20: 438–44 40 Waye J Colonoscopy Surg Clin North Am 19 72; 52: 10 13 –24 41 Wolff WI, Shinya H Colonofiberscopy JAMA 19 71; 217 : 15 09 12 42 Williams C, Muto T Examination of the whole colon with fibreoptic colonoscope Br Med J 19 72; 3: 278– 81 43 Williams CB,... magnifying colonoscopy Type CF-MB-M (Olympus) Gastrointest Endosc 19 78; 24: 14 6 47 Kudo S, Miura K, Takano M et al Dignosis of minute carcinoma of the colon Stomach and Intestine 19 90; 25: 8 01 12 Colonoscopy Principles and Practice Edited by Jerome D Waye, Douglas K Rex, Christopher B Williams Copyright © 2003 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Chapter 2 The Colonoscopy Suite Martin E Rich The introduction and general... and angle of view, and were more easily damaged (Fig 1. 20b), so angulation of early Olympus colonoscopes was limited to only around 90° 12 Section 1: General Aspects of Colonoscopy Fig 1. 21 Olympus colonofiberscopes (19 70 1) In contrast to Niwa, Matsunaga’s group had aimed at reaching the right side of the colon from the beginning, using a prototype fiberscope in 19 68 which had a 12 0-cm long shaft and. .. International Society of Endoscopy, Tokyo, 19 66: 4 21 4 14 Matsunaga F, Tsushima H Prototype sigmoidocamera and its clinical application [in Japanese] Clin All Round 19 58; 7: 13 78 15 Niwa H Photographing mucosa of the colon and other organs [in Japanese] Gastroenterol Endosc 19 60; 2: 77–8 16 Hopkins HH, Kapany NS A flexible fiberscope, using static scanning Nature 19 54; 17 3: 39– 41 17 Hirschowitz BI A personal history... subsequently, especially in fiber bundle technology, so current Olympus Fig 1. 22 Machida fibercolonoscope control body (19 70)a note right- and left-hand controls, giving four-way tip angulation colonofiberscopes have 14 0° angle of view, up/down distal angulation of 18 0°, and left/right angulation of 16 0° The outer diameter of the standard distal end is 13 .8 mm There are three different body lengths available with... fiberscope Gastroenterology , 19 79; 76: 39– 41 18 Lemire S, Cocco AE Visualization of the left colon with the fiber-optic gastroduodenoscope Gastrointest Endosc 19 66; 13 : 29–30 19 Fox JA A fibreoptic colonoscope BMJ 19 69; 3 (6 61) : 50 20 Overholt BF Clinical experience with fibersigmoidoscope Gastrointest Endosc 19 68; 15 : 27 21 Hecht J City of Light Oxford: Oxford University Press, 19 99 22 Niwa H, Utsumi Y,... sigmoidoscopy with a crude four-way angling instrument (Figs 1. 12 & 1. 13) ACMI, a relatively small company, had been preoccupied with gastroscope development and unwilling to accept governmental conditions for colonoscope Fig 1. 14 The original patent diagram (Curtiss and Hirschowitz, filed 19 57; registered 19 71) This shows the technique for drawing a “two-glass” fiber through an electric furnace development . Beverley) RC804.C64C63 2003 616 .3′407545a dc 21 2003 010 434 ISBN -1 0 1- 4 05 1- 1 44 9-5 ISBN -1 3 97 8 -1 -4 05 1- 1 44 9-3 A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library Set in 9.5 /12 pt Palatino by. Williams. – 1st ed. p.; cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN -1 0 1- 4 05 1- 1 44 9-5 1. Colonoscopy. [DNLM: 1 Colonoscopy methods. WI 520 C 717 9 2003] I. Waye, Jerome D., 19 32– II. Rex,. Habr-Gama, P.R. Arruda Alves & D.K. Rex 11 Diagnostic Yield of Colonoscopy by Indication, 11 1 F. Froehlich & J J. Gonvers 12 Screening Colonoscopy: Rationale and Performance, 13 1 D.