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World J Gastrointest Endosc. Aug 16, 2012; 4(8): 362-367
Published online Aug 16, 2012. doi: 10.4253/wjge.v4.i8.362
Usefulness of the DL in ME with NBI for determining the expanded area of early-stage differentiated gastric carcinoma
Kouichi Nonaka, Masaaki Namoto, Hideki Kitada, Michio Shimizu, Yasutoshi Ochiai, Osamu Togawa, Masamitsu Nakao, Makoto Nishimura, Keiko Ishikawa, Shin Arai, Hiroto Kita
Kouichi Nonaka, Yasutoshi Ochiai, Osamu Togawa, Masamitsu Nakao, Makoto Nishimura, Keiko Ishikawa, Shin Arai, Hiroto Kita, Department of Gastroenterology, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, Saitama 350-1298, Japan
Masaaki Namoto, Department of Gastroenterology, Kitakyushu Municipal Medical Center, Fukuoka 802-0077, Japan
Hideki Kitada, Department of Gastroenterology, Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital, Kumamoto 861-8520, Japan
Michio Shimizu, Department of Pathology, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, Saitama 350-1298, Japan
Author contributions: Nonaka K made substantial contributions to conception and design of the study, analysis and interpretation of date, drafting and revision of the manuscript, perform the majority of experiments; Namoto M and Kitada H performed the experiments; Shimizu M made contributions to pathological analysis and interpretation of data; Ochiai Y, Togawa O, Nakao M, Nishimura M, Ishikawa K and Arai S provided the support for this work; Kita H approved of the final version of the manuscript.
Correspondence to: Hiroto Kita, MD, PhD, Department of Gastroenterology, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, Saitama 350-1298, Japan. hkita@saitama-med.ac.jp
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Received: September 7, 2011
Revised: July 10, 2012
Accepted: August 8, 2012
Published online: August 16, 2012
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