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• Endomicroscopy is a new imaging tool for gastrointestinal endoscopy.
• Panchromoendoscopy with targeted biopsies has become the method of choice for surveillance of patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
• Endomicroscopy can be added after chromoendoscopy to clarify whether standard biopsies are still needed.
• This smart biopsy concept can increase the diagnostic yield of intraepithelial neoplasia and substantially reduce the need for biopsies.
• Endomicroscopy is still mainly used for research but clinical acceptance is increasing because of a multitude of positive studies about the diagnostic value of endomicroscopy.