Original ArticleComplete endoscopic closure of gastric perforation induced by endoscopic resection of early gastric cancer using endoclips can prevent surgery (with video)
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Patients and methods
A total of 2460 patients with EGC underwent endoscopic resection at the National Cancer Center Hospital from 1987 to 2004. Gastric perforation occurred in 121 patients (4.9%) during the endoscopic procedures (101 men and 20 women; median age 67 years, range 36-84 years). Informed consent, which described the merits and the complications of gastric EMR or ESD, was routinely obtained from each patient before these procedures.
Two methods of endoscopic closure were carried out: a “single-closure
Results
The rate of gastric perforation for each study period is shown in Table 2. Among all cases with perforation, 30 cases had been treated by standard EMR procedures (30/566 [5.3%]) and 91 cases by the ESD procedure (91/1894 [4.8%]). There were no statistically significant differences in the perforation rate between standard EMR procedures and the ESD procedure.
There were no statistically significant differences in the perforation rates of tumor locations (upper third of the stomach 36/431 [8.4%];
Discussion
Because of technical limitation by standard EMR procedures in the past, an accepted indication for EMR of EGC included the resection of small intramucosal cancer less than 2 cm in size of intestinal histology type.13 These standard techniques cannot be used to resect lesions larger than 15 mm in one piece.14 Piecemeal resections can cause the pathologist to render pathologic staging with inadequate certainty, and there is a high risk of a recurrence after piecemeal resections.15, 16
However, by
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