20Jul 2017

EARLY DETECTION OF GASTRIC CARCINOMA BY ADVANCE ENDOSCOPIC PROCEDURE: AN UPDATE.

  • Medicial Officer, Depeartment of Medicine, Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  • MBBS, MCPS (Medicine), MD Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Dhaka Medical College & Hospital.
  • MBBS, MRCP (UK), (MD). Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Dhaka Medical College.
  • MBBS, MD (Medicine), Department of Medicine, Kushtia Medical College & Hospital, Kushtia, Bangladesh.
  • FCPS(Surgery), Consultant(Surgery), Phage B resident, Colorectal Surgery, BSMMU, Shabag, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  • Medical Officer, Department of Medicine, Dhaka Medical College & Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Considerable numbers of early gastric cancers can be missed or misdiagnosed with conventional white light imaging endoscopy (WLI), thus advanced endoscopic imaging modalities have been applied to overcome the issue. High definition endoscopy can improve diagnostic accuracy, but still misses 20e25% of early gastric cancer. Magnifying endoscopy combined with narrow bandImaging (NBI) allows for very high accuracy, with sensitivity and specificity of over 95%. The algorithm for magnifying endoscopy diagnosis of gastric cancer is composed of 1) presence of demarcation line, and 2) presence of irregular microsurface and/or microvascular pattern. Ultra-high magnification of 400 times with endocytoscopy (ECS) can produce images reflecting structural and cellular atypia. Using high grade ECS atypia as the diagnostic criteria for gastric cancer, ECS achieves a high diagnostic accuracy (86% of sensitivity, 100% of specificity) although approximately 10 % of target lesions are not assessable because of poor dye staining.


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[M. A. Kashem, Taisir Shahriar, Hashmi Sina, Md. Akramuzzaman, Md. Touhidul Islam and Sadia Afrin. (2017); EARLY DETECTION OF GASTRIC CARCINOMA BY ADVANCE ENDOSCOPIC PROCEDURE: AN UPDATE. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jul). 807-819] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


Dr. Taisir Shahriar
Dhaka Medical College & Hospital

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/4784      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/4784