Post written by Daisuke Kikuchi, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. We evaluated the risk factors of cervical lymph node metastasis (LNM) in 331 patients with superficial pharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (PSCC) without a history of chemoradiotherapy for PSCC who underwent endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) at Toranomon Hospital in Tokyo, Japan. …
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The incidence of lymph node metastasis in early gastric cancer
Post written by Mohamed O. Othman, MD, from the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Section, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States. Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) has been used successfully for treating early gastric cancer. The Japanese Gastric Cancer association had previously published the standard criteria for ESD in early gastric cancer, which included non-ulcerated differentiated …
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