Diagnosis of small intramucosal signet ring cell carcinoma of the stomach by non-magnifying narrow-band imaging: A pilot study

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World J Gastrointest Endosc. Sep 10, 2015; 7(12): 1070-1077
Published online Sep 10, 2015. doi: 10.4253/wjge.v7.i12.1070

Table 1 Characteristics of signet ring cell carcinoma patients and controls

	SRC	Control	P value
Age, yr, mean ± SD	53.2 ± 14.2	69.1 ± 14.8	0.0008
Sex, male/female	7/6	10/4	0.44
Location: upper/middle/lower	2/7/5	4/8/2	0.36
NBI finding
NBI index (mean ± SD)	27.9 ± 21.0^a	24.8 ± 14.7	0.78
H. pylori: positive/negative	26.1 ± 20.5/29.0 ± 22.4	27.8 ± 15.4/19.3 ± 13.2	0.95 in SRC and 0.26 in control
WLI finding (mean ± SD)
WLI index	5.3 ± 16.2^a	-	0.001^a
H. pylori: positive/negative	13.5 ± 16.4/0.7 ± 15.1	-	0.32
C-index (mean ± SD)	0.67 ± 0.13	0.50 ± 0.14	0.001

^aP = 0.001 between NBI index and WLI index. SRC: Signet ring cell carcinoma; NBI: Narrow-band imaging; WLI: White light imaging; C-index: Circularity index.

Citation: Watari J, Tomita T, Ikehara H, Taki M, Ogawa T, Yamasaki T, Kondo T, Toyoshima F, Sakurai J, Kono T, Tozawa K, Ohda Y, Oshima T, Fukui H, Hirota S, Miwa H. Diagnosis of small intramucosal signet ring cell carcinoma of the stomach by non-magnifying narrow-band imaging: A pilot study. World J Gastrointest Endosc 2015; 7(12): 1070-1077
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