Volume: 8 Issue: 2
Year: 2020, Page: 100-105, Doi: https://doi.org/10.47799/pimr.0802.21
Background: A wide spectrum of lesions can be encountered in the upper gastrointestinal tract (GIT) especially the stomach or the gastric cavity. Endoscopy forms a crucial diagnostic procedure; it gives good diagnostic results in non-neoplastic lesions, endoscopy with biopsy is usually done in neoplastic lesions where the differentiation of benign and malignant lesions cannot be made always. Materials and
Methods: This is a retrospective cum prospective study and the duration of this study was 4 yearsfrom January 2015 to December 2019 and the total number of endoscopic procedures performed was 3978. All patients with symptoms pertaining to the upper GIT where Upper Gastro-Intestinal Endoscopy (UGI Endoscopy) is useful in diagnosis were included in this study. All age groups and both the sexes were included. Biopsy was taken wherever there was an indication.
Results: In this study, a total of 3978 endoscopies were done, out of which 2689 patients were males (67.6%) and 1289 were females (32.4%), youngest patient age in this study was 13 years and the oldest was 79 years. Most of the lesions were located in the gastric cavity (48% - 1909 cases), followed by esophagus (34%-1353 cases) and least among the three in the duodenum (18%- 716 cases). Out of the 3978 lesions, 134 cases were diagnosed as carcinoma on endoscopy and they were confirmed by histopathological examination.
Conclusion: Endoscopy plays a very important role in the diagnosis of upper GIT lesions and it is incomplete without histopathological examination of biopsied tissue in cases of neoplastic lesions.
Keywords: Carcinoma, Endoscopy,biopsy,Stomach, Esophagus,Duodenum Helicobacter pylori,Gastritis
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