Reviewer's report
Title:Correlation between magnifying narrow band imaging and histopathology
in gastric protruding/ or polypoid lesions: a pilot feasibility trial
Version: 1Date:19 September 2011
Reviewer: Helmut Neumann
Reviewer's report:
Omori and coworkers present an interesting article on the correlation between
magnification endoscopy with NBI and histology in gastric protruding or polypoid
lesions. Overall, 95 lesions from 76 patients were included and the authors
described that microvascular patterns as identified by magnification endoscopy
with NBI may provide meaningful information for prediction of histology of gastric
protruding or polypoid lesions.
The manuscript needs some revisions.
1. Abstract:
- Please describe the abbreviations used within the abstract (FGP, HP).
2. Introduction:
- Please describe the technique of NBI in more detail.
3. Patients:
- Please provide the magnification used in your study.
- Did you really perform EMR in gastric neoplasia or ESD? Please check this
sentence.
- Please add if the endoscopists were blinded to histological data.
Results:
- The sensitivity for unclear pattern given in this section for GN is very low
(14.2%) Is this correct? If yes, than please discuss this results.
Discussion:
- The discussion is a little bit confusing and there are numerous spelling
mistakes. I recommend to rewrite this section with more emphasis given to the
results.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Needs some language corrections before being
published
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests.
Reviewer's report
Title:Correlation between magnifying narrow band imaging and histopathology
in gastric protruding/ or polypoid lesions: a pilot feasibility trial
Version: 1Date:19 September 2011
Reviewer: Helmut Neumann
Reviewer's report:
Omori and coworkers present an interesting article on the correlation between
magnification endoscopy with NBI and histology in gastric protruding or polypoid
lesions. Overall, 95 lesions from 76 patients were included and the authors
described that microvascular patterns as identified by magnification endoscopy
with NBI may provide meaningful information for prediction of histology of gastric
protruding or polypoid lesions.
The manuscript needs some revisions.
1. Abstract:
- Please describe the abbreviations used within the abstract (FGP, HP).
2. Introduction:
- Please describe the technique of NBI in more detail.
3. Patients:
- Please provide the magnification used in your study.
- Did you really perform EMR in gastric neoplasia or ESD? Please check this
sentence.
- Please add if the endoscopists were blinded to histological data.
Results:
- The sensitivity for unclear pattern given in this section for GN is very low
(14.2%) Is this correct? If yes, than please discuss this results.
Discussion:
- The discussion is a little bit confusing and there are numerous spelling
mistakes. I recommend to rewrite this section with more emphasis given to the
results.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Needs some language corrections before being
published
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests.
Please review this paper.
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Reviewer's report
Title:Correlation between magnifying narrow band imaging and histopathology
in gastric protruding/ or polypoid lesions: a pilot feasibility trial
Version: 1Date:19 September 2011
Reviewer: Helmut Neumann
Reviewer's report:
Omori and coworkers present an interesting article on the correlation between
magnification endoscopy with NBI and histology in gastric protruding or polypoid
lesions. Overall, 95 lesions from 76 patients were included and the authors
described that microvascular patterns as identified by magnification endoscopy
with NBI may provide meaningful information for prediction of histology of gastric
protruding or polypoid lesions.
The manuscript needs some revisions.
1. Abstract:
- Please describe the abbreviations used within the abstract (FGP, HP).
2. Introduction:
- Please describe the technique of NBI in more detail.
3. Patients:
- Please provide the magnification used in your study.
- Did you really perform EMR in gastric neoplasia or ESD? Please check this
sentence.
- Please add if the endoscopists were blinded to histological data.
Results:
- The sensitivity for unclear pattern given in this section for GN is very low
(14.2%) Is this correct? If yes, than please discuss this results.
Discussion:
- The discussion is a little bit confusing and there are numerous spelling
mistakes. I recommend to rewrite this section with more emphasis given to the
results.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Needs some language corrections before being
published
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests.
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