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Boscolo Nata F, Tirelli G, Capriotti V, Marcuzzo AV, Sacchet E, Šuran-Brunelli AN, de Manzini N. NBI utility in oncologic surgery: An organ by organ review. Surg Oncol 2020; 36:65-75. [PMID: 33316681 DOI: 10.1016/j.suronc.2020.11.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2020] [Accepted: 11/26/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The main aims of the oncologic surgeon should be an early tumor diagnosis, complete surgical resection, and a careful post-treatment follow-up to ensure a prompt diagnosis of recurrence. Radiologic and endoscopic methods have been traditionally used for these purposes, but their accuracy might sometimes be suboptimal. Technological improvements could help the clinician during the diagnostic and therapeutic management of tumors. Narrow band imaging (NBI) belongs to optical image techniques, and uses light characteristics to enhance tissue vascularization. Because neoangiogenesis is a fundamental step during carcinogenesis, NBI could be useful in the diagnostic and therapeutic workup of tumors. Since its introduction in 2001, NBI use has rapidly spread in different oncologic specialties with clear advantages. There is an active interest in this topic as demonstrated by the thriving literature. It is unavoidable for clinicians to gain in-depth knowledge about the application of NBI to their specific field, losing the overall view on the topic. However, by looking at other fields of application, clinicians could find ideas to improve NBI use in their own specialty. The aim of this review is to summarize the existing literature on NBI use in oncology, with the aim of providing the state of the art: we present an overview on NBI fields of application, results, and possible future improvements in the different specialties.
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- Francesca Boscolo Nata
- ENT Clinic, Head and Neck Department, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Giuliano Isontina, Strada di Fiume 447, 34149, Trieste, Italy; Otorhinolaryngology Unit, Ospedali Riuniti Padova Sud "Madre Teresa di Calcutta", ULSS 6 Euganea, Via Albere 30, 35043, Monselice, PD, Italy.
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- ENT Clinic, Head and Neck Department, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Giuliano Isontina, Strada di Fiume 447, 34149, Trieste, Italy.
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- ENT Clinic, Head and Neck Department, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Giuliano Isontina, Strada di Fiume 447, 34149, Trieste, Italy.
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- ENT Clinic, Head and Neck Department, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Giuliano Isontina, Strada di Fiume 447, 34149, Trieste, Italy.
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- ENT Clinic, Head and Neck Department, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Giuliano Isontina, Strada di Fiume 447, 34149, Trieste, Italy.
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- ENT Clinic, Head and Neck Department, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Giuliano Isontina, Strada di Fiume 447, 34149, Trieste, Italy.
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- General Surgery Unit, Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Giuliano Isontina, Strada di Fiume 447, 34149, Trieste, Italy.
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Muto M, Yao K, Kaise M, Kato M, Uedo N, Yagi K, Tajiri H. Magnifying endoscopy simple diagnostic algorithm for early gastric cancer (MESDA-G). Dig Endosc 2016; 28:379-393. [PMID: 26896760 DOI: 10.1111/den.12638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 172] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2015] [Revised: 02/15/2016] [Accepted: 02/17/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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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; cause-specific survival of patients with early gastric cancer is reported to exceed 95%. Endoscopy is the functional modality to detect early cancer; however, the procedure is not definitive when using conventional white-light imaging. In contrast, magnifying narrow-band imaging (M-NBI), a novel endoscopic technology, is a powerful tool for characterizing gastric mucosal lesions because it can visualize the microvascular architecture and microsurface structure. To date, many reports on the diagnosis of early gastric cancer by M-NBI, including multicenter prospective randomized studies conducted in Japan, have been published in peer-reviewed international journals. Based on these published data, we devised a proposal for a diagnostic strategy for gastric mucosal cancer using M-NBI to simplify the process of diagnosis and improve accuracy. Herein, we recommend a diagnostic algorithm for early gastric cancer using magnifying endoscopy.
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- Manabu Muto
- The Japanese Gastroenterological Association, Tokyo, Japan.,Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society, Tokyo, Japan.,The Japanese Gastric Cancer Association, Kyoto, Japan
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- The Japanese Gastroenterological Association, Tokyo, Japan.,Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society, Tokyo, Japan.,The Japanese Gastric Cancer Association, Kyoto, Japan
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- The Japanese Gastroenterological Association, Tokyo, Japan.,Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society, Tokyo, Japan.,The Japanese Gastric Cancer Association, Kyoto, Japan
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- The Japanese Gastroenterological Association, Tokyo, Japan.,Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society, Tokyo, Japan.,The Japanese Gastric Cancer Association, Kyoto, Japan
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- The Japanese Gastroenterological Association, Tokyo, Japan.,Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society, Tokyo, Japan.,The Japanese Gastric Cancer Association, Kyoto, Japan
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- The Japanese Gastroenterological Association, Tokyo, Japan.,Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society, Tokyo, Japan.,The Japanese Gastric Cancer Association, Kyoto, Japan
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- The Japanese Gastroenterological Association, Tokyo, Japan.,Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society, Tokyo, Japan.,The Japanese Gastric Cancer Association, Kyoto, Japan
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Narrow-band imaging (NBI) is an imaging technique for endoscopy using optical filters to narrow the bandwidth of spectral transmittance. Through this narrow spectrum, NBI contrasts surface structure and microvascular architecture of various lesions. In this article we focus on the application of NBI for early-stage neoplasia in the esophagus, stomach and colon with a three-step strategy of endoscopic diagnosis: (i) the detection of abnormality; (ii) the differentiation between non-neoplasia and neoplasia; and (iii) staging for tumor extension and depth of invasion.
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Urquhart P, DaCosta R, Marcon N. Endoscopic mucosal imaging of gastrointestinal neoplasia in 2013. Curr Gastroenterol Rep 2013; 15:330. [PMID: 23771504 DOI: 10.1007/s11894-013-0330-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The holy grail of gastrointestinal endoscopy consists of the detection, in vivo characterization, and endoscopic removal of early or premalignant mucosal lesions. While our ability to achieve this goal has improved substantially since the development of the modern video-endoscope, inadequate visual inspection, errors of interpretation, and lesion subtlety all contribute to the continued suboptimal detection and assessment of early neoplasia. A myriad of new technologies has thus emerged that may help resolve these shortcomings; high magnification endoscopes, as well as the techniques of dye-based and virtual chromoendoscopy, are now widely available, while confocal laser endomicroscopy and endocystoscopy, optical coherence tomography, and autofluorescence imaging are generally applicable only in a research setting. Such technologies can be broadly categorized according to whether they potentially afford endoscopists improved detection, or real-time characterization, of mucosal lesions. Enhanced detection of otherwise "invisible" lesions, such as a flat area of intramucosal adenocarcinoma within Barrett's esophagus, carries the potential of an endoscopic cure prior to the development into a more advanced or metastatic disease. The ability to characterize a lesion to achieve an in vivo diagnosis, such as a colonic polyp, potentially affords endoscopists the ability to decide which lesions require removal and which can be safely left behind or discarded without histological assessment. Furthermore targeted biopsies, such as in the surveillance of chronic colitis, may prove to be more accurate and efficacious than the current protocol of random biopsies. An important caveat in the discussion of developing technologies in early cancer detection is the fundamental importance of a health-care system that promotes screening programs to recruit at-risk individuals. The ideal tool to optimize the use of endoscopy in population screening would be a panel of reliable biomarkers (blood, stool, or urine) that could effectively select a high-risk group, thus reducing the indiscriminate use of an expensive technology. The following review summarizes the current endoscopic imaging techniques available, and in development, for the early identification of gastrointestinal neoplasia.
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- P Urquhart
- St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Current clinical applications of magnifying endoscopy with narrow band imaging in the stomach. DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC ENDOSCOPY 2012; 2012:271914. [PMID: 23024577 PMCID: PMC3457669 DOI: 10.1155/2012/271914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2012] [Accepted: 07/25/2012] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Narrow band imaging (NBI), in conjunction with magnifying endoscopy (ME), has arisen more and more attention in the area of advanced endoscopy. By enhancing the mucosal microvascular architecture and surface pattern, it is feasible to use ME-NBI to identify subtle changes associated with gastric inflammation, atrophy, intestinal metaplasia, and early gastric cancer. The new technique thus plays a valuable role in therapeutic decision-making, endoscopic treatment process, postoperative evaluation, and follow-up examination. To date, many criteria or evaluation method of ME-NBI has been proposed. This paper aims to summarize the various diagnosing classifications and the current clinical applications of ME-NBI in the stomach.
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