The incidence of lymph node metastasis in submucosal early gastric cancer according to the expanded criteria: a systematic review

Background For successful endoscopic treatment of early gastric cancer (EGC), absolute criteria for a curative en bloc resection were initially established to include predominantly differentiated mucosal lesions ≤ 2 cm in diameter without ulceration. These indications were subsequently expanded to i...

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Veröffentlicht in:Surgical endoscopy 2019-01, Vol.33 (1), p.26-32
Hauptverfasser: Abdelfatah, Mohamed M., Barakat, Mohamed, Othman, Mohamed O., Grimm, Ian S., Uedo, Noriya
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Zusammenfassung:Background For successful endoscopic treatment of early gastric cancer (EGC), absolute criteria for a curative en bloc resection were initially established to include predominantly differentiated mucosal lesions ≤ 2 cm in diameter without ulceration. These indications were subsequently expanded to include larger, ulcerated, and predominantly undifferentiated mucosal lesions. In addition, differentiated type adenocarcinomas ≤ 3 cm with slight submucosal invasion of
ISSN:0930-2794
1432-2218
DOI:10.1007/s00464-018-6451-2