Mingqing Liu, Ying Li, Jiawei Fan, He Zhu, Fengming Ni, Tantan Ma, Erli Cui, Nan Zhang, Hong Xu
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Abstract
Background and aims: Endocytoscopy (EC) enables real-time histopathological evaluation through two modes: narrow-band imaging endocytoscopy (ECNBI) and staining-based endocytoscopy (EC-SB). However, the comparative diagnostic accuracy between ECNBI and EC-SB, and their performance of endoscopists with varying levels of experience remains unclear.
Methods: This retrospective study analyzed 565 colorectal lesions from 433 patients. Both expert and non-expert endoscopists evaluated colorectal lesions based on ECNBI and EC-SB images. Sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV), and inter- and intra-observer agreement were compared with histopathological diagnoses.
Results: The sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy for diagnosing hyperplastic polyps by experts using EC-SB are 93.0 %, 98.0 %, and 97.0 %, which were significantly higher than the results of ECNBI (86.8 %, 96.1 %, and 94.2 %, respectively; P < 0.05 for all). Similarly, for diagnosing adenomas to intramucosal cancers, EC-SB by experts achieved significantly higher sensitivity, specificity and accuracy (93.0 %, 94.8 % and 93.6 %) compared to ECNBI (90.2 %, 90.1 % and 90.2 %, respectively; P < 0.05 for all). In addition, for diagnosing invasive cancers, EC-SB by experts showed significantly higher specificity (98.7 % vs. 96.1 %, P < 0.05).
Conclusions: EC-SB demonstrated higher diagnostic accuracy for colorectal lesions among experts, supporting its utility for precise treatment decisions.
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Digestive and Liver Disease is an international journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. It is the official journal of Italian Association for the Study of the Liver (AISF); Italian Association for the Study of the Pancreas (AISP); Italian Association for Digestive Endoscopy (SIED); Italian Association for Hospital Gastroenterologists and Digestive Endoscopists (AIGO); Italian Society of Gastroenterology (SIGE); Italian Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology (SIGENP) and Italian Group for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IG-IBD).
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