The development of endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) has enabled en bloc resection of lesions regardless of size and shape. However, ESD of colorectal tumors is technically difficult. Early stage colorectal…
Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is useful for submucosal tumors (SMTs) within the superficial submucosal layer, but perforation frequently occurs during ESD for SMTs located at the deeper layer. Endoscopic resection…
Endoscopic resection is now considered a curative procedure for early gastric cancer. In Japan, it has increasingly replaced surgical resection for this indication, although in the West it has not…
Norio Fukami, MD, AGAF, FACG, FASGE, Editor The innovative procedure, later named endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD), was invented in Japan in the late 1990s to address the existing limitations of…
Charles J. Lightdale, MD, Consulting Editor In the history of gastrointestinal endoscopy, every once in a while a new therapeutic method comes to the fore that seems difficult and risky,…
