Publications by authors named "Hiroshi MashimoMD"
Background: Colonoscopic screening and surveillance for colorectal cancer could be made safer and more efficient if endoscopists could predict histology without the need to biopsy and perform histopathology on every polyp. Elastic-scattering spectroscopy (ESS), using fiberoptic probes integrated into standard biopsy tools, can assess, both in vivo and in real time, the scattering and absorption properties of tissue related to its underlying pathology.
Aims: The objective of this study was to evaluate prospectively the potential of ESS to predict polyp pathology accurately.