Gastric cancer is the third leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Early detection and
accurate diagnosis of mucosal cancer is desirable in order to achieve decreased mortality; …

Background Curative treatment of patients with gastric cancer requires reliable detection of
early gastric cancer. Magnifying endoscopy with narrow-band imaging (M-NBI) is useful for …

BACKGROUND: Magnifying endoscopy with narrow-band imaging (ME-NBI) can more
clearly assess the surface pattern and microvascular architecture of gastric lesions …

BACKGROUND: Conventional, white-light imaging endoscopy (WLE) results in a significant
number of misdiagnoses in early gastric cancer. Magnifying endoscopy combined with …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: It is difficult to accurately diagnose patients with depressed gastric
mucosal cancer based on conventional white-light imaging (C-WLI) endoscopy. We …

Background The usefulness of magnifying gastroscopy has been reported in differentiating
between benign and malignant gastric mucosal lesions. However, there have been no …

Objective Magnifying endoscopy with narrow band imaging (ME-NBI) is widely used in
gastroscopy, especially in the diagnosis of early gastric cancer. The purpose of this meta …

BACKGROUND: Narrow-band imaging magnifying endoscopy is widely used in Japan, but
still there is no set of consistent guidelines for gastric lesions. AIMS: To introduce a new …

Background Blue laser imaging (BLI) is a new image-enhanced endoscopy technique that
utilizes a laser light source developed for narrow-band light observation. The aim of this …

Results: Of the three types of filter available for use with the NBI system, microvascular
formation was best enhanced in B mode images produced using short wavelengths, which …