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ID 83262
Author
Okamura, Seisuke Second Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Tokushima School of Medicine
Tsutsui, Akemi Second Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Tokushima School of Medicine
Muguruma, Naoki Second Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Tokushima School of Medicine Tokushima University Educator and Researcher Directory KAKEN Search Researchers
Ichikawa, Soichi Second Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Tokushima School of Medicine
Sogabe, Masahiro Second Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Tokushima School of Medicine Tokushima University Educator and Researcher Directory KAKEN Search Researchers
Okita, Yoshio Second Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Tokushima School of Medicine
Fukuda, Tamotsu Second Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Tokushima School of Medicine
Hayashi, Shigehito Second Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Tokushima School of Medicine
Okahisa, Toshiya Second Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Tokushima School of Medicine Tokushima University Educator and Researcher Directory KAKEN Search Researchers
Shibata, Hiroshi Second Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Tokushima School of Medicine
Ito, Susumu Second Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Tokushima School of Medicine Tokushima University Educator and Researcher Directory
Sano, Toshiaki First Department of Pathology, The University of Tokushima School of Medicine Tokushima University Educator and Researcher Directory KAKEN Search Researchers
Keywords
endoscopic ultrasonography
ultrasonic miniprobe
gastric cancer
Content Type
Journal Article
Description
To determine the utility and limitations of an ultrasonic miniprobe (UMP) in the staging of gastric cancer, we evaluated 46 patients who underwent endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) using an UMP and who were histologically determined to have gastric cancers. In every case, UMP findings were compared with histopathological findings after treatment. The total accuracy of UMP relative to the depth of tumor invasion was71.7% (33/46 cases). Accuracy with respect to T1-m tumor diagnosis was 75.7% (22/29cases), and for T1-sm, 76.9% (10/13 cases), but accuracy for T2 tumor diagnosis was low, due to ultrasound attenuation. When the analysis was carried out based on the size of tumor, the accuracy for UMP was 50.0% (9/18cases) for all tumors over 20mm and 85.7%(24/28 cases) for all tumors smaller than 20mm. We conclude that UMP is suitable for investigation of tumor extension when the lesion is superficial and / or small gastric cancers which do not cause ultrasonic attenuation, but not when the tumor is large or located in certain sites, although conventional EUS is useful in some of these cases.
Journal Title
The journal of medical investigation : JMI
ISSN
13431420
NCID
AA11166929
Volume
46
Issue
1-2
Start Page
49
End Page
53
Sort Key
49
Published Date
1999
Remark
EDB ID
FullText File
language
eng
departments
Medical Sciences