ReviewDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2021
Endoscopic Ultrasound vs. Computed Tomography for Gastric Cancer Staging: A Network Meta-Analysis.
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- Updated Evaluation of the Diagnostic Performance of Double Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasonography in the Preoperative T Staging of Gastric Cancer: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Pooled it
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- Utility of Hydro-Computed Tomography in Diagnosing Surgical Clip Migration into the Gastric Wall Post-splenectomy.ACG case reports journal · 2025Article
- Oncologic outcomes of patients with negative nodal involvement on preoperative imaging undergoing surgery for gastric cancer.World journal of surgical oncology · 2025Article
- Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) in Gastric Cancer: Current Applications and Future Perspectives.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Influence of visceral adipose tissue on the accuracy of tumor T-staging of gastric cancer in preoperative CT.Japanese journal of radiology · 2025Article
- Nomogram for pre-procedural prediction of lymph node metastasis in patients with submucosal early gastric cancer.Surgical endoscopy · 2025Article
- Serum metabolic profiling analysis of chronic gastritis and gastric cancer by untargeted metabolomics.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025Article
- Diagnostic Efficacy of Staging Laparoscopy Compared to CT and PET-CT in Gastric Cancer: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
- Double contrast-enhanced ultrasonography improves diagnostic accuracy of T staging compared with multi-detector computed tomography in gastric cancer patients.World journal of gastroenterology · 2024Article
- Linear EUS Accuracy in Preoperative Staging of Gastric Cancer: A Retrospective Multicenter Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Imaging in Gastric Cancer: Current Practice and Future Perspectives.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Development of a deep learning model for early gastric cancer diagnosis using preoperative computed tomography images.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Article
- Detection and Characterization of Gastric Cancer Using Cascade Deep Learning Model in Endoscopic Images.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- A potential decision-making algorithm based on endoscopic ultrasound for staging early gastric cancer: a retrospective study.BMC cancer · 2022Article
- Gastric Cancer Angiogenesis Assessment by Dynamic Contrast Harmonic Imaging Endoscopic Ultrasound (CHI-EUS) and Immunohistochemical Analysis-A Feasibility Study.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Article
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- The Need for Oral Hygiene Care and Periodontal Status among Hospitalized Gastric Cancer Patients.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Article
- A novel DNA methylation signature associated with lymph node metastasis status in early gastric cancer.Clinical epigenetics · 2022Article
- Diagnostic Value of Endoscopic Ultrasound after Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Gastric Cancer Restaging: A Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Test.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
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Abstract
Gastric cancer preoperative staging is of outmost importance to assure proper management of the disease. Providing a relevant clinical stage relies on different imaging methods such as computed tomography (CT) or endoscopic ultrasound (EUS). We aimed to perform a network meta-analysis for gastric cancer clinical stage diagnostic tests, thus comparing the diagnostic accuracy of EUS vs. multidetector CT (MDCT) and EUS vs. EUS + MDCT. We plotted study estimates of pooled sensitivity and specificity on forest plots and summary receiver operating characteristic space to explore between-study variation in the performance of EUS, MDCT and EUS + MDCT for T1-T4, N0-N3, M0-M1 when data were available. Exploratory analyses were undertaken in RevMan 5. We included twelve studies with 2047 patients. Our results suggest that EUS was superior to MDCT in preoperative T1 and N staging. MDCT is more specific for the M stage but no significant difference in sensitivity was obtained. When comparing EUS vs. EUS + MDCT for T1 both sensitivity and specificity were not relevant. No significant differences were observed in T2-T4 stages. Even though EUS helped differentiate between the presence of invaded nodules, N stages should be carefully assessed by both methods since there is not sufficient data.
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