Clinical usefulness of magnifying endoscopy for non-ampullary duodenal tumors

Abstract

Study aims This study aimed to investigate the clinical usefulness of magnifying endoscopy (ME) for non-ampullary duodenal tumors.

Patients and methods We enrolled 103 consecutive patients with non-ampullary duodenal tumors that were observed by ME with narrow-band imaging (ME-NBI) and had pit pattern analysis before endoscopic resection at Hiroshima University Hospital before December 2014. ME-NBI images were classified as Type B or Type C according to the Hiroshima classification, and pit patterns were classified as regular or irregular. We studied the clinicopathological features and diagnoses with ME-NBI and pit pattern analyses according to the Vienna classification (category 3: 73 patients; category 4: 30 patients).

Results Category 4 lesions were significantly larger than category 3 lesions. According to ME-NBI images, category 4 Type C lesions (83 %) were significantly more common than category 4 Type B lesions (17 %). According to pit pattern analyses, category 4 irregular lesions 4 (77 %) were significantly more common than category 4 regular lesions (23 %). The accuracies of using Type C ME-NBI images and irregular pit patterns to diagnose category 4 lesions were 87 % and 84 %, the sensitivities were 83 % and 77 %, and the specificities were 89 % and 88 %, respectively. There was no significant difference between ME-NBI and pit pattern analyses for diagnosing the histologic grade of non-ampullary duodenal tumors.

Conclusion Our study showed that ME-NBI and pit pattern analysis had equivalent abilities to determine the histologic grade of non-ampullary duodenal tumors. ME-NBI may be more useful because it is a simple, less time-consuming procedure.

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