GASTROENTEROLOGICAL ENDOSCOPY
Online ISSN : 1884-5738
Print ISSN : 0387-1207
ISSN-L : 0387-1207
MAGNIFYING ENDOSCOPY WITH NARROW BAND IMAGING ENHANCES THE DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF SUPERFICIAL GASTRIC LESIONS WITHOUT EXPERTISE
Tokuma TANUMAMasanori NOJIMAHaruo SHIMIZUAkira GOTOKentaro KAWAKAMIYuya KOMATSUTakafumi NAITOYasutaka MATSUNAGAReina OOZEKINoriyuki AKUTSUMasayo HOSOKAWAHiroyuki OKUDAKentaro YAMASHITAYoshiaki ARIMURAKei ONODERAKayo MURAKAMIMayuko SAITOYuka AOKIYasutaka SUKAWATadashi HASEGAWAYasuhisa SHINOMURA
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2010 Volume 52 Issue 10 Pages 2917-2926

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Recent reports suggest that magnifying endoscopy with narrow band imaging (ME-NBI) is useful for the differential diagnosis of superficial gastric lesions. However, interpretation of the image is sometimes difficult even for experts, so it is unknown whether ME-NBI is useful also to endoscopists without expertise in ME-NBI. The aim of this study was to investigate the usefulness of ME-NBI for the novices to distinguish benign from malignant lesions of the stomach. Twenty-four participants, none of whom had expertise in ME-NBI, diagnosed the white light endoscopy (WLE) images of 50 superficial gastric lesions (17 cancers, 33 benign lesions). After presentation of 10 ME-NBI examples (5 cancers, 5 benign lesions), the participants again diagnosed the same 50 lesions with WLE as well as corresponding ME-NBI images. Adding ME-NBI to conventional WLE images significantly improved the diagnostic accuracy of superficial gastric lesions, from 62.8% with WLE to 72.8% with WLE plus ME-NBI (P<0.001). In conclusion, ME-NBI is useful to distinguish superficial lesions of the stomach even for observers without ME-NBI expertise.
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© 2010 Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society
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