Different scopes/different instruments, I think....I had a GED (gastroesophogoduodenoscopy)(!!) when I had my routine colonoscopy. That way I had everything looked at in my digestive system, from the mouth down. I wanted to have the bronchoscopy done at the same time, but they said that it would have been a different doctor and a different procedure and too much going on for one morning.

At my surgery, they were to have done both an esophogoscopy and a bronchoscopy. They said later that they did the bronch, but that they were not able to do the esoph. bec. my throat was small and they didn't have a flexible scope (why did they not obtain one??? I don't know.)

So...different things. The larynx/pharynx can be viewed in the ENT's office by passing a small camera and light through the nostril after spraying some numbing med. Not a big deal at all.

A true bronchoscopy is a more involved procedure, but I have read that they can be done in the office also, under certain circumstances,-with an instrument similar to the one used by the ENT, but they are usually done in a day-surgery setting, under some anaesthesia.