Francesco Cocomazzi, Marco Gentile, Francesco Perri, Fabrizio Bossa, Antonio Merla, Antonio Ippolito, Rossella Cubisino, Sonia Carparelli, Antonella Marra, Alessia Mileti, Mariano Piazzolla, Rosa Paolillo, Massimiliano Copetti, Paola Parente, Paolo Graziano, Alfredo Di Leo, Angelo Andriulli
PURPOSE: For superficial colonic lesions, the NICE and Kudo classifications are used in the in vivo prediction of histology and as guide to therapy. The NICE system derives information from unmagnified NBI endoscopic images. The Kudo one necessitates a magnification, but, as this tool is not commonly available, it is applied also to characterize unmagnified pictures to compare their diagnostic performances. METHODS: We conducted a prospective comparison of the NICE versus the Kudo classification for the differential diagnosis of colonic polyps taking histology as the gold standard...
July 2021: International Journal of Colorectal Disease