Abstract

Magnifying endoscopy (ME) with narrow-band imaging (NBI) revealed a white opaque substance (WOS) within the superficial part of the gastric neoplasia, which obscured the subepithelial microvascular architecture [1], however, its nature has not been understood. It is reported that the WOS within the duodenum is fat droplets (FDs) absorbed by duodenal epithelium. We assumed that the FDs accumulated in the neoplastic surface epithelium can strongly scatter the projected light. Hence, we attempted to ascertain whether WOS could be made up of FDs absorbed by gastric neoplasia and whether the presence of WOS could be correlated with a specific phenotype.

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