Experimental and Clinicopathological Study of The Development of Endoscopic Full Thickness Resection (EFTR) And Endoscopic Complete Defect Closure (Ecdc) For Early Gastrointestinal Malignancies

摘要

Endoscopic detection of early gastric cancer has been extremely successful in Japan over the last two decades, especially when used with endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR). In 1993. We developed a method of EMR using a ligating device (EMR-L), which we have used to treat 400 to 550 patients with early gastric cancer at our institution. However, in 130 cases (32.5/100) the completeness of resection could not be determined owing to histological difficulties.