Vintage Stuff Part 2 – Storz Endoscope Adapter
January 24, 2010 § 4 Comments

Olympus OM-2 with Storz 593-T2 endoscope adapter. Click to enlarge. Photo by Øystein Horgmo © All rights reserved.
We have an Olympus OM-2 kit at work, complete with a range of lenses, a flash and a Storz 593-T2 endoscope adapter. This adapter makes it possible to attach the camera to any Storz endoscope, such as gastroscopes, colonoscopes and laparoscopes. « Read the rest of this entry »
Endoscopic Eye
January 14, 2009 § Leave a comment

Photo by Øystein Horgmo © All rights reserved.
While editing a video of an ERCP procedure, I noticed a familiar figure in the recording from the endoscope. Who’s filming who?
Surgery of the future
August 19, 2008 § Leave a comment
What will the surgery of the future look like? In this interesting lecture, Jeffrey L. Ponsky MD of the Case Western Reserve University takes a step back to the days of “the bigger the incision, the bigger the ego”, and details the development of endoscopic surgery too see into the future of surgical treatment.
“The new future surgery will be a lot like you see on Star Trek.”