Is endoscopic ultrasonography still the modality of choice in preoperative staging of gastric cancer?

Table 4 Performance of magnetic resonance imaging in preoperative T and N staging

Ref.	Year	Number of patients (n)	Stage	Accuracy (%)	Overstaging (%)	Understaging (%)
Sohn et al[53]	2000	30	Overall T	73.3	6.7	20
			N	55.2	10.3	34.5
Kang et al[51]	2000	46	Overall T	82.6	2.2	15.2
			N	52.2	17.4	30.4
Wang et al[54]	2000	33	Overall T	87.9	6	6
Kim et al[52]	2000	26 (AGC)	Overall T	80.7	19.2	0
			N	65.4	0	34.6
Zhong et al[55]	2005	16	Overall T	64.3	14.3	21.4
Arocena et al[21]	2006	17	Overall T	53	23.5	23.5
			N	50	25	25