Abstract
Pretreatment biopsy may not correctly diagnose mixed-type early gastric cancers. Despite reports on the usefulness of magnifying endoscopy with narrow-band imaging in diagnosing early gastric cancers, no reports exist on differences in magnifying endoscopy with narrow-band imaging findings between differentiated-type-predominant mixed-type and undifferentiated-type-predominant mixed-type early gastric cancers. This study aimed to clarify differences in magnifying endoscopy with narrow-band imaging findings and investigate the additive effect of combining magnifying endoscopy with narrow-band imaging and biopsy findings for pretreatment histological-type diagnosis. Patients undergoing endoscopic submucosal dissection as initial treatment between April 2005 and March 2017 participated in this retrospective study. There were 156 differentiated-type-predominant mixed-type and 36 undifferentiated-type-predominant mixed-type lesions. We extracted the most significant magnifying endoscopy with narrow-band imaging findings of differentiated-type-predominant mixed-type and undifferentiated-type-predominant mixed-type lesions using multivariate analysis and compared the accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity between pretreatment biopsy alone and a combination of biopsy and magnifying endoscopy with narrow-band imaging findings. Significant magnifying endoscopy with narrow-band imaging findings was fine network pattern in differentiated-type-predominant and corkscrew pattern in undifferentiated-type-predominant mixed-type lesions. Accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity were significantly higher with combined biopsy and magnifying endoscopy with narrow-band imaging findings than with pretreatment biopsy alone. The study results demonstrated the additive effect of magnifying endoscopy with narrow-band imaging with biopsy for diagnosing mixed-type early gastric cancers. This study may be beneficial in routine practice because it indicates a possibility of reducing additional surgery after endoscopic submucosal resection because of incorrect diagnosis of histological type.
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