- Author:
Hee Seok MOON
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Author Information
- Publication Type:Review
- Keywords: Endoscopy; Early gastric cancer; Detection
- MeSH: Comorbidity; Diagnosis; Endoscopes; Endoscopy; Gastritis, Atrophic; Gastrointestinal Diseases; Humans; Metaplasia; Optic Disk; Risk Factors; Stomach; Stomach Neoplasms*
- From:Clinical Endoscopy 2015;48(4):291-296
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: Endoscopists should ideally possess both sufficient knowledge of the endoscopic gastrointestinal disease findings and an appropriate attitude. Before performing endoscopy, the endoscopist must identify several risk factors of gastric cancer, including the patient's age, comorbidities, and drug history, a family history of gastric cancer, previous endoscopic findings of atrophic gastritis or intestinal metaplasia, and a history of previous endoscopic treatments. During endoscopic examination, the macroscopic appearance is very important for the diagnosis of early gastric cancer; therefore, the endoscopist should have a consistent and organized endoscope processing technique and the ability to comprehensively investigate the entire stomach, even blind spots.