Endoscopic staging and targeted biopsies for routine gastric intestinal metaplasia and gastric atrophy evaluation (ESTIMATE study)
- Conditions
- premalignant stomach lesionthickening of stomach mucosa10017990
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 60
Participants already in surveillance for premalignant stomach lesions or with
new found lesions will be asked to participate in the current study:
1. All patients referred to the endoscopy department for an upper
gastrointestinal endoscopy who are found to have chronic atrophic gastritis
2. Patients will be 18 - 75 years old.
3. Patients must be able to give informed consent.
1. Patients with gastric neoplasia not amenable to endoscopic resection.
2. Patients with significant comorbidities
3. Patients with coagulation disorders
4. Patients with previous gastric neoplasia or surgery
5. Being unable to complete the biopsy protocol on either endoscopy session
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method