Presented at Digestive Disease Week, the Japan-based study compared real-time diagnostic performance of conventional white light endoscopy with magnifying NBI for gastric lesions no larger than 1 cm. NBI is a new optical technology for examining the surface structure and vascular architecture in the superficial mucosa.
The diagnostic accuracy of white light endoscopy was 65 percent compared with 90 percent for NBI. The time required to make a diagnosis with magnifying NBI was about 30 seconds longer than with white light endoscopy.
Read the Internal Medicine News report on endoscopy.
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