Gastric cancer missed at endoscopy

High miss rate for gastric superficial cancers at endoscopy: what is necessary for gastric cancer screening and surveillance using endoscopy?

A population-based, retrospective, cohort study of esophageal cancer missed at endoscopy.

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS Several studies have suggested that a significant minority of esophageal cancers are missed at endoscopy The aim of this study was to estimate the proportion of esophageal cancers missed at endoscopy on a national level, and to investigate the relationship between miss rates and patient and tumor characteristics. PATIENTS AND METHODS This retrospective, population-ba...

How commonly is upper gastrointestinal cancer missed at endoscopy? A meta-analysis

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS Upper gastrointestinal (UGI) cancer in the Western world usually presents at an advanced stage, when opportunities for curative therapy are limited. The failure to detect subtle, early-stage UGI cancer at endoscopy may contribute to a poor prognosis. We undertook a meta-analysis of studies of endoscopic miss rates for UGI cancer to quantify how often opportunities to d...

Blunt gastric traumatic injuries: a case revealed at endoscopy

A 24-year-old man was referred to surgical emergency with abdominal pain after a poly-traumatism caused by a car traffic accident, without abnormalities at physical examination and normal findings at thorax radiography, radiography of the pelvis, ultrasonography and abdominal CT scan. Two days later, a peritoneal lavage was scheduled after an upper gastrointestinal endoscopy for persistent and ...

Gastric ulcers at endoscopy: brush, biopsy, or both?

OBJECTIVES All gastric ulcers discovered at endoscopy are potentially malignant. Concurrent use of both histological biopsy and cytological brushing has been advocated as a means of increasing the diagnostic yield for neoplasia at the time of initial endoscopy. The purpose of this analysis was to determine the impact of these diagnostic strategies on the cost-effectiveness of detecting malignan...