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DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1704887
SALINE-IMMERSION THERAPEUTIC ENDOSCOPY (SITE) ASSISTED POCKET-CREATION METHOD (PCM) ENDOSCOPIC SUBMUCOSAL DISSECTION (ESD) OF A CIRCUMFERENTIAL 11 × 8 CM RECTOSIGMOID COLORECTAL TUMOUR
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Publication Date:
23 April 2020 (online)
In our institution, pocket-creation-method(PCM) for endoscopic-submucosal-dissection(ESD), is combined with saline-immersion-therapeutic-endoscopy(SITE); this further facilitates PCM-ESD by improving view quality (through refractive magnification and minimal lense fogging) and lesion lifting (through buoyancy).
A 82-year-old man presented a circumferential rectosigmoid 11 × 8 cm granular-laterally-spreading-tumour (mixed-nodular-type)(LST-G).
Two submucosal pockets were created on both lateral sides of the lesion. After adequate, deep submucosal dissection was achieved, the two pockets were connected. The circumferential, en-bloc-resected specimen was retrieved for histopathological evaluation, which reported tubular adenoma with low and foci of high-grade dysplasia, demonstrating complete excision.
SITE-PCM-ESD for giant circumferential colorectal lesions is a feasible minimally-invasive alternative to surgery.