title: Chromoendoscopy for early diagnosis of gastric cancer.
abstract: Early diagnosis represents the most important measure to decrease gastric cancer mortality. Endoscopists should be trained to perform standardized extremely rigorous observation with a low threshold of suspicion for neoplasia. Together with recent interest in new imaging techniques such as magnification, chromoendoscopy should be considered to represent a simple, safe and inexpensive technique that may be useful in identifying premalignant conditions and minute cancerous lesions, estimating their superficial extent and determining the histological type and submucosal invasion.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Instituto Português de Oncologia Francisco Gentil, Porto, Portugal. mario@med.up.pt
authors.forename: Mário
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dinis-Ribeiro
mesh_terms: D004396:Coloring Agents; D042241:Early Diagnosis; D004724:Endoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011230:Precancerous Conditions / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*
chemical_list: D004396:Coloring Agents