PubMed:24995546 JSONTXT

{"target":"https://pubannotation.org/docs/sourcedb/PubMed/sourceid/24995546","sourcedb":"PubMed","sourceid":"24995546","source_url":"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24995546","text":"Value of narrow band imaging in the early diagnosis of laryngeal cancer.\nBACKGROUND: Narrow band imaging (NBI) is a new imaging technique for the depiction of tumor-specific neoangiogenesis. The purpose of the present study was to assess the value of NBI in the early diagnosis of laryngeal cancer.\nMETHODS: This prospective study includes 205 consecutive patients with a laryngeal lesion scheduled for microlaryngoscopy. NBI was immediately performed after white light endoscopy (WLE), whereas excisional biopsy was carried out for histologic verification of diagnosis.\nRESULTS: In identifying laryngeal cancer and its precursor lesions, NBI with WLE showed a significantly higher sensitivity (97% vs 79%) and accuracy (97% vs 90%) than WLE alone, but the specificity (96% vs 95%) was essentially equal in both methods.\nCONCLUSION: NBI qualifies for rapid detection and delineation of suspicious lesions. Additionally, this noninvasive method is also beneficial in a variety of benign lesions. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Head Neck 38: 15-20, 2016.","tracks":[]}