1. A multicenter prospective study of the real-time use of narrow-band imaging in the diagnosis of premalignant gastric conditions and lesions.
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Pimentel-Nunes, Pedro, Libânio, Diogo, Lage, Jorge, Abrantes, Diogo, Coimbra, Miguel, Esposito, Gianluca, Hormozdi, David, Pepper, Mike, Drasovean, Silvia, White, Jonathan R., Dobru, Daniela, Buxbaum, James, Ragunath, Krish, Annibale, Bruno, and Dinis-Ribeiro, Mário
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PRECANCEROUS conditions ,GASTROSCOPY ,STOMACH cancer ,CANCER diagnosis ,METAPLASIA ,DYSPLASIA ,STOMACH biopsy ,DIAGNOSIS - Abstract
Background and Aim: Some studies suggest that narrow-band imaging (NBI) can be more accurate at diagnosing gastric intestinal metaplasia and dysplasia than white-light endoscopy (WLE) alone. We aimed to assess the real-time diagnostic validity of high resolution endoscopy with and without NBI in the diagnosis of gastric premalignant conditions and to derive a classification for endoscopic grading of gastric intestinal metaplasia (EGGIM).Methods: A multicenter prospective study (five centers: Portugal, Italy, Romania, UK, USA) was performed involving the systematic use of high resolution gastroscopes with image registry with and without NBI in a centralized informatics platform (available online). All users used the same NBI classification. Histologic result was considered the diagnostic gold standard.Results: A total of 238 patients and 1123 endoscopic biopsies were included. NBI globally increased diagnostic accuracy by 11 percentage points (NBI 94 % vs. WLE 83 %; P < 0.001) with no difference in the identification of Helicobacter pylori gastritis (73 % vs. 74 %). NBI increased sensitivity for the diagnosis of intestinal metaplasia significantly (87 % vs. 53 %; P < 0.001) and for the diagnosis of dysplasia (92 % vs. 74 %). The added benefit of NBI in terms of diagnostic accuracy was greater in OLGIM III/IV than in OLGIM I/II (25 percentage points vs. 15 percentage points, respectively; P < 0.001). The area under the curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve for EGGIM in the identification of extensive metaplasia was 0.98.Conclusions: In a real-time scenario, NBI demonstrates a high concordance with gastric histology, superior to WLE. Diagnostic accuracy higher than 90 % suggests that routine use of NBI allows targeted instead of random biopsy samples. EGGIM also permits immediate grading of intestinal metaplasia without biopsies and merits further investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2016
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