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Endoscopy is undoubtedly an invasive technique and invasiveness is not welcomed in pediatrics. However, there is no doubt that GI endoscopy has a promising future in the field of therapeutic and interventional endoscopy with more improvements to come.

Gastrointestinal endoscopy in children has evolved from a rather confidential tool in the early 1970s, available to very few pediatric gastroenterologists with special skills and curiosity, to a routine diagnostic technique present in almost all pediatric gastroenterology units throughout the world. The stimulating adventure granted to the early “discoverers” has been replaced by less thrilling but probably more useful procedures since continuous improvement of the instruments allows deeper and more audacious therapeutic procedures.

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