For colonoscopy technology, newer is not always better.
Narrow band imaging (NBI) significantly outperformed linked color imaging (LCI) in detecting colorectal polyps and adenomas in a study presented at the 2019 Digestive Disease Week (abstract 252).
NBI picked up significantly more polyps, adenomas and serrated adenomas than LCI, but both modalities missed a concerning number of lesions, said Wai Keung Leung, MD, the Li Shu Fan Medical Foundation Professor in Gastroenterology at the University