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World J Gastrointest Endosc. Oct 10, 2015; 7(14): 1142-1149
Published online Oct 10, 2015. doi: 10.4253/wjge.v7.i14.1142
Histological diagnosis of gastric submucosal tumors: A pilot study of endoscopic ultrasonography-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy vs mucosal cutting biopsy
Hisatomo Ikehara, Zhaoliang Li, Jiro Watari, Masato Taki, Tomohiro Ogawa, Takahisa Yamasaki, Takashi Kondo, Fumihiko Toyoshima, Tomoaki Kono, Katsuyuki Tozawa, Yoshio Ohda, Toshihiko Tomita, Tadayuki Oshima, Hirokazu Fukui, Ikuo Matsuda, Seiichi Hirota, Hiroto Miwa
Hisatomo Ikehara, Zhaoliang Li, Jiro Watari, Masato Taki, Tomohiro Ogawa, Takahisa Yamasaki, Takashi Kondo, Fumihiko Toyoshima, Tomoaki Kono, Katsuyuki Tozawa, Yoshio Ohda, Toshihiko Tomita, Tadayuki Oshima, Hirokazu Fukui, Hiroto Miwa, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Hyogo 663-8501, Japan
Ikuo Matsuda, Seiichi Hirota, Department of Surgical Pathology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Hyogo 663-8501, Japan
Author contributions: Ikehara H and Li Z contributed equally to this work; Watari J and Miwa H designed and performed the research study; Ikehara H, Li Z, Taki M, Kondo T, Tozawa K performed the procedures; All the authors helped to collect the data; Matsuda I and Hirota S diagnosed the histology; Watari J performed statistical analysis and wrote the paper.
Institutional review board statement: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan.
Informed consent statement: All patients in the study gave informed consent for the procedures.
Conflict-of-interest statement: None.
Data sharing statement: The technical appendix, statistical code, and dataset are available from the corresponding author (watarij@hyo-med.ac.jp). Consent for data sharing was not obtained from the participants, but the presented data are anonymized and the risk of identification is low.
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Correspondence to: Jiro Watari, MD, PhD, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, 1-1, Mukogawa-cho, Nishinomiya, Hyogo 663-8501, Japan.
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Received: April 19, 2015
Peer-review started: April 21, 2015
First decision: June 3, 2015
Revised: June 21, 2015
Accepted: September 7, 2015
Article in press: September 8, 2015
Published online: October 10, 2015
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