Clinical Application of Magnification Endoscopy and Narrow-Band Imaging in the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract: New Imaging Techniques for Detecting and Characterizing Gastrointestinal Neoplasia - 22/08/11
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This article introduces one of the most advanced endoscopy imaging techniques, magnification endoscopy with narrow-band imaging. This technique can clearly visualize the microvascular (MV) architecture and microsurface (MS) structure. The application of this technique is quite useful for characterizing the mucosal neoplasia in the hypopharynx, oropharynx, esophagus, and stomach. The key characteristic findings for early carcinomatous lesions are an irregular MV pattern or irregular MS pattern as visualized by this technique. Such a diagnostic system could be applied to the early detection of mucosal neoplasia throughout the upper gastrointestinal tract.
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This work was presented as a state-of-the-art lecture at the Third American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) AGA Institute–Japanese Society of Gastroenterology JSGE Joint Meeting entitled “GI Cancer: Current Practice and Future Directions in Diagnosis, Imaging and Surveillance”. |
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This work was supported in part by a grant-in-aid from the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare of Japan. |
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Dr Ragunath has received educational grants, speaker honorarium and research support from Olympus-Keymed, UK. |
Vol 18 - N° 3
P. 415-433 - juillet 2008 Retour au numéroBienvenue sur EM-consulte, la référence des professionnels de santé.
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