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The feasibility of NBI in patients with suspected upper airway lesions: A multicenter study

Overview of attention for article published in The Laryngoscope, February 2017
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Title
The feasibility of NBI in patients with suspected upper airway lesions: A multicenter study
Published in
The Laryngoscope, February 2017
DOI 10.1002/lary.26526
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Leif J.J. Bäck, Jami Rekola, Lassi Raittinen, Elina Halme, Petra Pietarinen, Harri Keski‐Säntti, Leena‐Maija Aaltonen, Antti A. Mäkitie, Antti Raappana, Jukka Tikanto, Aleksi Schrey, Reidar Grenman, Jussi Laranne, Petri Koivunen, Heikki Irjala

Abstract

Narrow band imaging (NBI) improves diagnosis of laryngopharyngeal cancer, but most reported NBI studies are from experienced centers. Feasibility reports on use at everyday outpatient departments are needed. Researcher-initiated, prospective, multicenter. Participating physicians were instructed in NBI technique during a 4-hour meeting. Patients underwent an examination that included endoscopy with white light (WL) high-definition (HD) TV and NBI filter in the selected time period. All suspicious lesions were biopsied. The medical records of patients with NBI negative findings were evaluated 6 months after the visit to detect all possible malignant lesions coming into view at mucosal sites. These were considered as false-negative cases, enabling long-term assess to the positive predictive value (NPV) of the protocol. We enrolled 125 patients. Of those, 84 (67.2%) were males and the median age was 65 years (range, 35-91). In analysis of the accuracy of WL HD TV and NBI against biopsy, the sensitivity and specificity of WL HD TV were 62% and 81%, respectively; and the sensitivity and specificity of NBI were 100% and 84%, respectively. The diagnostic accuracy of NBI was significantly better (P < 0.05). When analyzing medical records 6 months after the initial examination, we found three patients who had been diagnosed with a malignant lesion (NPV of NBI of 96.8%). Narrow band imaging is readily implemented in an everyday outpatient practice, and there seems to be better detection rates of dysplastic/carcinoma lesions with HD NBI compared to HD WL. 2b. Laryngoscope, 2017.

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Unknown 21 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 3 14%
Student > Bachelor 2 10%
Researcher 2 10%
Student > Master 2 10%
Student > Postgraduate 2 10%
Other 2 10%
Unknown 8 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 38%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 5%
Social Sciences 1 5%
Psychology 1 5%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 9 43%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 April 2017.
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#5,066,214
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