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Gastroscopy is an important medical examination, safe and affordable that allows direct visualization of the upper part of the digestive tract (esophagus, stomach and duodenum), for its use an endoscope is used, whose tip has a video camera and a light that it illuminates the examined organ and the image is transmitted to a monitor where lesions such as ulcers, erosions and neoplasms of the examined organs can be identified. In addition to being a diagnostic method, gastroscopy has an important therapeutic aspect.