Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) or reverberation endoscopy is a clinical system wherein endoscopy (addition of a test into an empty organ) is joined with ultrasound to acquire pictures of the inside organs in the chest, midsection and colon. It tends to be utilized to imagine the dividers of these organs, or to take a gander at adjoining structures. Joined with Doppler imaging, close by veins can likewise be assessed.
Endoscopic ultrasonography is most ordinarily utilized in the upper stomach related tract and in the respiratory framework. The strategy is performed by gastroenterologists or pulmonologists who have had broad preparing. For the patient, the strategy feels practically indistinguishable from the endoscopic method without the ultrasound part, except if ultrasound-guided biopsy of more profound structures is performed.
An endoscopic ultrasound test put in the throat can likewise be utilized to imagine lymph hubs in the chest encompassing the aviation routes (bronchi), which is significant for the organizing of lung disease. Ultrasound can likewise be performed with an endoscopic test inside the bronchi themselves, a method known as endobronchial ultrasound.