Linked color imaging improves identification of early gastric cancer lesions by expert and non-expert endoscopists.

Kiki FockensJeroen de GroofJoost van der PuttenTsevelnorov KhurelbaatarHisashi FukudaTakahito TakezawaYoshimasa MiuraHiroyuki OsawaHironori YamamotoJacques J G H M Bergman

Published in: Surgical endoscopy (2022)

The addition of LCI next to WLE improves visualization of EGC. Experts reach higher consensus on discrimination between neoplasia and inflammation when using LCI. Non-experts improve their targeted biopsy placement with the use of LCI. LCI therefore appears to be a useful tool for identification of EGC.

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