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ReviewClinical journal of gastroenterology2018

Future of diagnosing neoplasia in Barrett's esophagus: volumetric laser endomicroscopy.

Muhammad Aziz, Rawish Fatima

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Review in Clinical journal of gastroenterology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 43% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Muhammad AzizDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA. maziz2@kumc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5620-8597
Rawish FatimaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.
Dow University of Health Sciences · PKUniversity of Kansas Medical Center · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) is one of the deadliest carcinoma faced by gastroenterologists. Any insult to esophagus that causes replacement of normal squamous epithelium with columnar intestinal epithelium is labelled as the initiating event of the metaplasia-neoplasia sequence. Barrett's esophagus is the precursor to EAC. Currently, endoscopically obtained biopsies are used to detect neoplastic changes in patients with Barrett's esophagus (BE); however, it is not cost effective and hence a better screening modality is needed. Volumetric laser endomicroscopy (VLE) has been under study for the past few years and has shown promising results to overcome the shortcoming faced in the biopsy samplings. It is a second-generation optical coherence tomography (OCT) that provides high-resolution cross-sectional imaging of the esophageal mucosa using near-infrared light. The principle is similar to endosonography, but image formation in OCT depends on variations in the reflection of light from different tissue layers rather than ultrasonic waves.

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AdenocarcinomaBarrett EsophagusBiopsyEsophageal NeoplasmsEsophagusHumansTomography, Optical CoherenceBarrett’s esophagusEsophageal adenocarcinomaOptical coherence tomographyVolumetric laser endomicroscopy

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PMID29680981
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