Endoscopy Center

Specialized Endoscopy Care

Our Endoscopy Center provides a full range of endoscopy care, whether you need a diagnosis or treatment for a gastrointestinal, colon or rectal condition.

You receive a diagnosis and care quickly through our Endoscopy on Demand service. The program lets your primary care doctor refer you and schedule diagnostic and urgent therapeutic procedures for you right away. A gastroenterologist discusses the results with you and your doctor.

Expert Routine & Advanced Care

Our Endoscopy Center provides everything from colon cancer screenings to treatments for swallowing disorders, bile duct disorders, and tumor diagnosis using endoscopic ultrasound. We offer screenings and procedures for conditions of the following organs and body systems:

• Liver
• Biliary tree
• Pancreas
• Gastrointestinal tract, including:
  • Esophagus
  • Colon
  • Rectum

Our endoscopy specialists are at the forefront of finding new ways to use endoscopic tools and procedures to improve care and treatments. Because we are a teaching hospital, we are able to provide the best leading-edge, evidence-based treatments.

Endoscopy Procedures

Our advanced technology lets us make a precise diagnosis and provide treatments for conditions that can be difficult to pinpoint. You can receive care at our Endoscopy Center or in your doctor’s office.

Our services include:

• Colon cancer screenings
• Motility procedures, including tests that measure acid reflux, check your pH levels, or measure the muscle strength in your esophagus

We also offer many advanced procedures that allow your doctor to view and treat conditions in hard-to-reach areas of the bile ducts, pancreas and small intestines.

These procedures include:

• Enteroscopy
• ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography)
• EUS (endoscopic ultrasound)

Refer a Patient

When you refer patients to the Endoscopy Center at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, they have quick, easy access to diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and to providers who are experts in treating complex gastroenterology conditions.

Our experts in therapeutic endoscopy are available to help diagnose and manage conditions of the:

• Liver
• Biliary tree
• Pancreas
• Gastrointestinal tract

Our one-step referral process lets you request services or appointments for our full range of endoscopy services.

Our Endoscopy on Demand program gives you direct, same-day appointment access to a scheduler for procedures at our Burlington and Peabody locations, including:

• Diagnostic upper endoscopy
• Colonoscopy
• Flexible sigmoidoscopy
• Urgent therapeutic procedures