endosonography meaning

• [Medicine]
  Ultrasonography of internal organs using an ultrasound transducer sometimes mounted on a fiberoptic endoscope. In endosonography the transducer converts electronic signals into acoustic pulses or continuous waves and acts also as a receiver to detect reflected pulses from within the organ. An audiovisual-electronic interface converts the detected or processed echo signals,which pass through the electronics of the instrument,into a form that the technologist can evaluate. The procedure should not be confused with ENDOSCOPY which employs a special instrument called an endoscope. The endo- of endosonography refers to the examination of tissue within hollow organs,with reference to the usual ultrasonography procedure which is performed externally or transcutaneously.

• After completing his M . B . B . S . at Veer Narmad South Gujarat University in Gujarat, India in 1988 and his MS in general surgery in 1992, he went to Germany as a clinical fellow and trainee in advanced therapeutic endoscopy and endosonography at the Department of Endoscopic Surgery of University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany under Prof . Nib Soehendra and Dr . Kenneth Binmoeller.

• "endosonography" meaning in Chinese: 内镜超声技术
• "endosonography" meaning in Russian: эндоскопическая эхография