Combined assessment of clinical and pathological prognostic factors for deciding treatment strategies for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma invading into the muscularis mucosa or submucosa after endoscopic submucosal dissection.
Tomohiro ShimadaWaku HattaSo TakahashiTomoyuki KoikeTetsuya OhiraHikichi TakutoYosuke ToyaIppei TanakaYusuke OnozatoKoichi HamadaDaisuke FukushiKo WatanabeShoichi KayabaHirotaka ItoTatsuya MikamiTomoyuki OikawaYasushi TakahashiYutaka KondoTetsuro YoshimuraTakeharu ShirokiKo NaginoNorihiro HanabataAkira FunakuboJun NakamuraTakayuki MatsumotoKatsunori IijimaShinsaku FukudaAtsushi MasamuneKei Itonull nullPublished in: Digestive endoscopy : official journal of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society (2022)
We clarified prognostic factors for patients with pT1a-MM/pT1b-SM ESCC after ESD. The combined assessment of non-ESCC- and ESCC-related mortalities by the two risk classifications might help clinicians in deciding treatment strategies for such patients.