echoendoscope

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

echo +‎ endoscope

Noun[edit]

echoendoscope (plural echoendoscopes)

  1. An instrument used to perform echoendoscopy.
    • 2015 July 21, Disaya Chavalitdhamrong et al., “Technical advances in endoscopic ultrasound-guided fiducial placement for the treatment of pancreatic cancer”, in Endoscopy International Open[1], volume 3, →DOI:
      More flexible fiducial delivery systems that are unlikely to bend or kink during deployment with the echoendoscope in the long position, or in an angulated and torqued configuration, are desirable to allow fiducial placement in the pancreatic head and uncinate.