Negligible procedure-related dissemination risk of mucosal incision-assisted biopsy for gastrointestinal stromal tumors versus endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration/biopsy.
Yosuke MinodaEikichi IharaSoichi ItabaYorinobu SumidaKazuhiro HaraguchiAkira AsoTakahiro MizutaniTakashi OsoegawaMitsuru EsakiShuzaburo NagatomoKei NishiokaKazumasa MutaXiaopeng BaiHaruei OginoNao FujimoriDaisuke TsurumaruKenoki OhuchidaHu QingjiangEiji OkiHidetaka YamamotoYoshihiro OgawaPublished in: Surgical endoscopy (2022)
MIAB is safe, with little impact on postoperative prognosis, although the procedure releases some tumor cells after damaging the SEL's pseudocapsule.