Optimal number of endoscopic biopsies for diagnosis of early gastric cancer

Background and study aims No recommendations are available for optimal number of endoscopic biopsies for early gastric cancer (GC), and whether detection of early GC is improved by increasing the number of biopsy is unclear. We therefore evaluated the relationship between number of biopsies and diag...

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Main Authors: Masaki Nishitani, Naohiro Yoshida, Shigetsugu Tsuji, Teppei Masunaga, Hirokazu Hirai, Saori Miyajima, Akihiro Dejima, Takashi Nakashima, Shigenori Wakita, Kenichi Takemura, Hiroshi Minato, Shuichi Kaneko, Hisashi Doyama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2019-12-01
Series:Endoscopy International Open
Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/a-1007-1730