Capsule endoscopy is a minimally invasive and simple method that is used for the diagnosis of certain diseases of the digestive tract.

It consists of swallowing a capsule,  the size of a pill, which  contains inside a small camera that takes thousands of photographs during its journey through the digestive tract, the images are captured by an external memory via wireless that are later analyzed by the specialist.

Finally, the capsule is expelled in the feces and is not reused.   The main objective of this method is fundamentally the diagnosis of the small intestine, inaccessible to conventional endoscopy.  

Being a diagnostic procedure, it is closely linked to enteroscopy, capable of performing different therapeutic procedures.