Post written by Tomohiro Kadota, MD, PhD, and Tomonori Yano, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Japan. This multicenter study focused on the long-term clinical outcomes after endoscopic resection (ER) for superficial esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) with pathological invasion of the muscularis mucosae without lymphovascular invasion (LVI). The metastatic …
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Successful endoscopic resection by using gel immersion and the technique of endoscopic papillectomy for a tumor adjacent to the papilla of Vater
Post written by Tomoaki Tashima, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, Saitama, Japan. A 69-year-old woman presented with a flat elevated tumor adjacent to the papilla of Vater (POV). Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) was selected for en bloc resection of the tumor and to determine a definitive pathological diagnosis. …
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Follow-up outcomes of mucosal defect closures after endoscopic resection using a helix tacking system and endoclips
Post written by Sonmoon Mohapatra, MD, and Norio Fukami, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. In this video, we describe the follow-up outcomes of 5 patients who underwent endoscopic resection (ER) and secure mucosal defect closure using the X-Tack endoscopic HeliX tacking system (Apollo Endosurgery, Austin, Tex, USA) …
Long-term clinical outcome after endoscopic resection of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma invading the muscularis mucosae without lymphovascular invasion
Post written by Daiki Sato, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, and the Department of Gastroenterology, Saitama Cancer Center, Saitama, Japan, and Tomohiro Kadota, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Japan. This study focused on the long-term clinical …
Long-term outcomes after noncurative endoscopic resection of early gastric cancer
Post written by Jun Chul Park, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. Although ESD is performed with curative intent, curative resection of ESD is not always possible. The standard management after noncurative resection (NCR) is additional gastrectomy with lymph node (LN) …
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ESD removal of large superficial tumor
Post written by Maiko Takita, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, NTT Medical Center Tokyo, in Tokyo, Japan Endoscopic resection for cecal tumors extending to the appendiceal orifice is difficult because the margin cannot be often tracked entirely, in addition to the higher risk of perforation. Here we report a case of a colonic tumor …
Editor’s Choice: EMR of lateral spreading lesions of the duodenum
Associate Editor Amit Rastogi, MD, FASGE, highlights this article from the October issue "Endoscopic mucosal resection of large and giant lateral spreading lesions of the duodenum: success, adverse events, and long-term outcomes" by Amir Klein, MD, Dhruv Nayyar, MD, Farzan F. Bahin, MBBS (Hons), FRACP, MPhi, et al. This study describes the short and long …
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Successful removal of esophageal submucosal tumor
Successful removal of an esophageal submucosal tumor by submucosal tunneling endoscopic resection technique Hiroyuki Aihara, MD, PhD The Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts, USA In this video, we describe a case of submucosal esophageal tumor successfully removed by a submucosal tunneling endoscopic resection (STER) technique. This is a …
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OTSC-assisted endoscopic resection of gastric submucosal nodule
Shashideep Singhal, MD, from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Texas describes this video case "Over-the-scope clip-assisted endoscopic resection of gastric submucosal nodule." A 61-year-old woman with refractory dyspepsia underwent upper endoscopy, which showed an incidental gastric submucosal nodule. EUS showed a 1.4-cm nodule arising from the muscularis propria. FNA results were …
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Surgery for benign colon polyps
Rajesh N. Keswani, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago, Illinois, USA describes his article "Adverse events after surgery for nonmalignant colon polyps are common and associated with increased length of stay and costs." Most colon polyps are endoscopically resected with ease. Some polyps require additional expertise …
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