Endoscopic detection and diagnostic strategies for minute gastric cancer: A real-world observational study

Table 2 Differences between minute gastric cancers found by white light endoscopy and narrow-band imaging

	Found by WLE (n = 161)	Found by NBI (n = 27)	P value
Color change			P = 0.444
Reddish	58	6
Yellowish red	44	10
No color change	36	8
Whitish	22	3
Morphological change			P < 0.001
Protruding	84	6
Flat	15	14
Depressed	62	7
Covering with thin white moss			P = 0.130
Present	60	6
Absent	101	21
Spontaneous bleeding			1
Present	11	0
Absent	150	27

¹Unapplicable to statistics.

WLE: White light endoscopy; NBI: Narrow-band imaging.