The endoscopic diagnosis of Barrett esophagus with the use of narrow band imaging modality in the daily routine of department of gastroenterology

Background and objectives: Recent studies proved that narrow band imaging (NBI) endoscopy is more useful than the conventional high definition endoscopy for the diagnosis of Barrett's esophagus and has a high degree of accuracy for the detection of metaplastic and dysplastic tissue within the BE segment. Our retrospective study aimed to analize our results with NBI endoscopic technique for the diagnosis of BE. Methods: Since 2006 september our department has NBI endoscopes beside conventional endoscopes. In the period between 2007.01.01.-2007.12.31. 3498 upper GI endoscopy were done. Results: 1340 of the upper e…