Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver
May 18, 2024
Recognition of gastric conditions during endoscopy exams, including gastric cancer, usually requires specialized training and a long learning curve. Besides that, the interobserver variability is frequently high due to the different morphological cha...
Conventional endoscopy is widely used in the diagnosis of early gastric cancers (EGCs), but the graphical features were loosely defined and dependent on endoscopists' experience. We aim to establish a more accurate predictive model for infiltration d...
BACKGROUND: Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is the standard treatment for early malignant stomach lesions. However, this procedure is technically demanding and carries a high complication risk. The level of difficulty in performing ESD is infl...
BACKGROUND: Endoscopic full-thickness gastric resection (EFTGR) with regional lymph node dissection (LND) has been used for early gastric cancer (EGC) exceeding the indications for endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD). The extent of the dissected l...
Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver
May 21, 2022
BACKGROUND: Chronic atrophic gastritis is a common preneoplastic condition of the stomach with a low detection rate during endoscopy.
BACKGROUND: Helicobacter pylori, a 2 × 1 μm spiral-shaped bacterium, is the most common risk factor for gastric cancer worldwide. Clinically, patients presenting with symptoms of gastritis, routinely undergo gastric biopsies. The following histo-morp...