Role of endoscopy in suspicion of atrophic gastritis with and without intestinal metaplasia in comparison to histopathology

CONCLUSION: Conventional endoscopy has high sensitivity and specificity for suspicion of chronic gastritis and AG, but low sensitivity and very high specificity for IM. Targeted biopsies may be valuable with image enhanced techniques.PMID:33639688

Source: Acta Gastro-Enterologica Belgica - February 28, 2021 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: H Ibrahim A Shams El-Deen Z A Kasemy M Saad A A Sakr Source Type: research