Post written by Michael Lajin, MD, from SHARP HealthCare, San Diego, California, USA. The standard treatment for squamous cell anal cancer is chemoradiation treatment. A few case reports from Japan address resecting early squamous cell anal cancer by endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD). We presented a case series of squamous carcinoma in situ of the anal canal …
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Impact of en bloc resection on long-term outcomes after EMR
Post written by Mayenaaz Sidhu, MBBS, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Westmead Hospital, and Westmead Clinical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The focus of this study was to assess long-term outcomes of sized-matched laterally spreading colorectal lesions (LSL) resected en bloc (e-EMR) as compared to piece-meal resection (p-EMR). …
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Conscious transnasal hybrid ESD enables safe and painless en bloc resection
Post written by Yohei Minato, MD, from the NTT Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan. With the transnasal endoscopy, we successfully performed hybrid endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) of an early gastric cancer without sedation. Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (ESD) is a technically demanding and time-consuming procedure, which is usually performed under sedation. Recently, hybrid ESD was developed as …
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Technical difficulty in colorectal ESD
Kenichiro Imai, MD from the Division of Endoscopy, Shizuoka Cancer Center in Shizuoka, Japan discusses "Preoperative indicators of failure of en bloc resection or perforation in colorectal endoscopic submucosal dissection: implications for lesion stratification by technical difficulties during stepwise training." This study assessed predictors for failure of en bloc resection and perforation in colorectal endoscopic …
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