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Risk factors for local recurrence in patients with positive lateral resection margins after endoscopic submucosal dissection for early gastric cancer
With the widespread use of endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) in patients with early gastric cancer (EGC), the number of cases with incomplete resection due to positive lateral resection margins (LM+) is i...
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Open AccessGastric epithelial dysplasia: characteristics and long-term follow-up results after endoscopic resection according to morphological categorization
Gastric epithelial dysplasia (GED) can be morphologically categorized into adenomatous and foveolar types. To date, there have been few studies on the clinical characteristics of GEDs according to the morpholo...
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Endoscopic resection of gastrointestinal lipomas: a single-center experience
Gastrointestinal (GI) lipomas are benign, slow-growing subepithelial tumors. Most lipomas are detected incidentally at endoscopy, but they can cause GI bleeding, abdominal pain, intestinal obstruction, and int...
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Long-term outcomes of endoscopic submucosal dissection for early gastric cancer: a single-center experience
In Korea, endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) has been widely accepted for the treatment of early gastric cancers (EGCs). However, the understanding of the long-term clinical outcome of ESD for EGC remains ...
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Open AccessMarginal turbid band and light blue crest, signs observed in magnifying narrow-band imaging endoscopy, are indicative of gastric intestinal metaplasia
Gastric intestinal metaplasia (IM) usually appears in flat mucosa and shows few morphologic changes, making diagnosis using conventional endoscopy unreliable. Magnifying narrow-band imaging (NBI) endoscopy ena...
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Open AccessAcetic acid-indigo carmine chromoendoscopy for delineating early gastric cancers: its usefulness according to histological type
Endoscopic treatments, such as endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) and laparoscopic gastrectomy, are increasingly used to treat a subset of patients with early gastric cancer (EGC). To achieve successful ou...
