Gastric adenocarcinoma of the fundic gland (chief cell-predominant type): A review of endoscopic and clinicopathological features

Table 2 Endoscopic characteristics of previously reported cases

Author (yr)	Number of patients	Location (U:M:L)	Size (mm, average)	Macroscopic shape	Color tone	Vessel findings	NBI with magnification
							MSP	MVP
Tsukamoto et al[4] (2007)	1	U	16	Elevated	Normal	Vasodilation	ND	ND
Ueyama et al[5] (2010)	10	10:0:0	8.6 (4-20)	Elevated: 5	ND	ND	ND	ND
				Depressed: 5
Fukatsu et al[6] (2011)	1	U	5	Elevated	Yellowish	ND	ND	ND
Terada et al[7] (2011)	1	U	20	Elevated	Reddish	Vasodilation	ND	ND
Park et al[8] (2012)	3	1:1:1	2.6 (1.2-3.6)	Elevated and depressed: 3	ND	ND	ND	ND
Singhi et al[9] (2012)	10	10:0:0	4.3 (2-8)	Elevated: 10	ND	ND	ND	ND
Chen et al[10] (2012)	1	U	12	Elevated	Whitish	Vasodilation	ND	ND
Abe et al[11] (2013)	1	U	ND	Elevated	Yellowish	ND	ND	ND
Ueyama et al[12] (2014)	10	6:4:0	9.3 (3-31)	Elevated: 6	Whitish: 8	Vasodilation: 5	ND	ND
				Depressed: 3	Reddish: 2	Normal: 5
Miyazawa et al[13] (2015)	5	5:0:0	7.8 (5-13)	Elevated: 4	Whitish: 3	Vasodilation: 5	Regular: 3	Regular: 3
				Flat: 1	Normal: 2		Absent: 2	Irregular: 2
Parikh et al[14] (2015)	1	U	7	Elevated	Reddish	Vasodilation	ND	ND
Kato et al[15] (2015)	1	U	15	Elevated	Whitish	Vasodilation	Regular	Regular
Fujii et al[16] (2015)	1	U	< 10	Depressed	Whitish	Vasodilation	Absent	Irregular

U: Upper third; M: Middle third; L: Lower third; NBI: Narrow-band imaging; MSP: Microsurface pattern; MVP: Microvascular pattern; ND: Not described.