Does Adding a Cardia Biopsy Improve Gastric Intestinal Metaplasia Detection Rate by the Sydney System Protocol?
Ghazaleh SoltaniBahar Saberzadeh-ArdestaniMasoud SotoudehSiavosh Naseri-MoghaddamMohammad Hossein DerakhshanHiva SaffarAmir KasaeianMohammadReza ChavoshiAli Reza SimaPublished in: Archives of Iranian medicine (2022)
The addition of a biopsy from the cardia to the Sydney protocol biopsy set does not seem to improve the frequency of detection of IM in the residents of this high-risk geographic area for proximal gastric carcinoma.