Endoscopic Mucosal Resection of Superficial Cancer in the Stomach Using the Cap Technique

Abstract

Clinicopathological analyses of surgically treated early gastric cancers have revealed that some of them would have been curable by endoscopic treatment. The main endoscopic treatment currently used for early gastric cancer is endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR), which allows histopathological examination of the resected specimen. It was first described by Deyhle et al. [1] in 1973 and the procedure was established by Tada et al. [2] in the 1980s under the name of strip biopsy.