TY - JOUR
T1 - The utility of ultrathin endoscopy with flexible spectral imaging color enhancement for early gastric cancer
AU - Yokoyama, Takafumi
AU - Miyahara, Ryoji
AU - Funasaka, Kohei
AU - Furukawa, Kazuhiro
AU - Yamamura, Takeshi
AU - Ohno, Eizaburo
AU - Nakamura, Masanao
AU - Kawashima, Hiroki
AU - Watanabe, Osamu
AU - Hirooka, Yoshiki
AU - Hirakawa, Akihiro
AU - Goto, Hidemi
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PY - 2019/5/1
Y1 - 2019/5/1
N2 - Many researchers suggested that ultrathin endoscopy improves patient acceptance of endoscopic examinations. However, ultrathin endoscopy provides less image resolution and luminous intensity. Therefore, we focused on the visibility of early gastric cancer on ultrathin endoscopy with Flexible spectral imaging color enhancement (FICE) in this study. Thirty-six patients with early gastric cancer were prospectively enrolled. One endoscopist performed the endoscopic examinations by white light conventional endoscopy (W-CE), white light ultrathin endoscopy (W-UE), FICE ultrathin endoscopy (F-UE) and white light plus FICE ultrathin endoscopy (WF-UE) in the patients. Four other endoscopists were asked to evaluate the visibility of gastric cancer on the W-CE, W-UE, F-UE and WF-UE images with a 5-point Likert scale. The lesions were classified as uncolored, normocolored or reddish. We examined the color difference between early gastric cancer and the surrounding mucosa. To examine the relationship between the color difference and the vessel density, we also measured the difference in vessel density using pathologic specimens stained with hematoxylin and eosin. The Likert score of WF-UE was significantly higher than those of the other three methods (p<0.001). The color difference of F-UE was higher than that of W-CE in the reddish group (p=0.049). The difference in vessel density was higher in the reddish group than in the normocolored group (p=0.048). In conclusion, the visibility of early gastric cancer from the surrounding mucosa using ultrathin endoscopy with FICE was better than that using white light conventional endoscopy, especially for reddish lesions.
AB - Many researchers suggested that ultrathin endoscopy improves patient acceptance of endoscopic examinations. However, ultrathin endoscopy provides less image resolution and luminous intensity. Therefore, we focused on the visibility of early gastric cancer on ultrathin endoscopy with Flexible spectral imaging color enhancement (FICE) in this study. Thirty-six patients with early gastric cancer were prospectively enrolled. One endoscopist performed the endoscopic examinations by white light conventional endoscopy (W-CE), white light ultrathin endoscopy (W-UE), FICE ultrathin endoscopy (F-UE) and white light plus FICE ultrathin endoscopy (WF-UE) in the patients. Four other endoscopists were asked to evaluate the visibility of gastric cancer on the W-CE, W-UE, F-UE and WF-UE images with a 5-point Likert scale. The lesions were classified as uncolored, normocolored or reddish. We examined the color difference between early gastric cancer and the surrounding mucosa. To examine the relationship between the color difference and the vessel density, we also measured the difference in vessel density using pathologic specimens stained with hematoxylin and eosin. The Likert score of WF-UE was significantly higher than those of the other three methods (p<0.001). The color difference of F-UE was higher than that of W-CE in the reddish group (p=0.049). The difference in vessel density was higher in the reddish group than in the normocolored group (p=0.048). In conclusion, the visibility of early gastric cancer from the surrounding mucosa using ultrathin endoscopy with FICE was better than that using white light conventional endoscopy, especially for reddish lesions.
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U2 - 10.18999/nagjms.81.2.241
DO - 10.18999/nagjms.81.2.241
M3 - Article
C2 - 31239593
AN - SCOPUS:85068827177
SN - 0027-7622
VL - 81
SP - 241
EP - 248
JO - Nagoya journal of medical science
JF - Nagoya journal of medical science
IS - 2
ER -