Chromoendoscopy with iodine staining, as well as narrow-band imaging, is still useful and reliable for screening of early esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Am J Gastroenterol. 2015 Jan;110(1):193-4. doi: 10.1038/ajg.2014.371.

Authors

Yuichi Shimizu¹, Masakazu Takahashi¹, Takeshi Mizushima¹, Shouko Ono², Katsuhiro Mabe², Shunsuke Ohnishi¹, Mototsugu Kato², Masahiro Asaka³, Naoya Sakamoto¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Gastroenterology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
² Division of Endoscopy, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan.
³ Department of Cancer Preventive Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.

PMID: 25567173
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2014.371

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Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / diagnosis*
Early Detection of Cancer / methods*
Esophageal Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Esophagoscopy / methods*
Esophagus / pathology*
Female
Humans
Male
Narrow Band Imaging / methods*