Meta-analysis: narrow band imaging for diagnosis of gastric intestinal metaplasia.

BACKGROUND: Distinguishing early gastric cancer is challenging with current imaging techniques. Narrow band imaging (NBI) is effective for characterizing gastric lesions. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this meta-analysis was to estimate the diagnostic accuracy of NBI in the gastric intestinal metaplasia (GI...

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Main Authors: Jia Song, Jixiang Zhang, Jun Wang, Xufeng Guo, Jing Wang, Ya Liu, Weiguo Dong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3990530?pdf=render