Dr. Takuji Gotoda, a gastroenterologist in the Endoscopy Division at the National Cancer Center Hospital in Tokyo, Japan, discusses the treatment of early gastric cancer (EGC) by endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR). He describes the indications and the importance of histological staging in the pre-treatment diagnosis of EGC. He compares conventional EMR applications to the more recent endoscopic submucosal dissection procedure, and provides technical details on the latter procedure.

Approx. 11 minutes
49 slides
Date: 2005/09
Location: Montreal, Quebec