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. 2017 Mar;50(2):170-178.
doi: 10.5946/ce.2016.017. Epub 2016 May 9.

Comparison of Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection and Surgery for Differentiated Type Early Gastric Cancer within the Expanded Criteria

Dong Woo Shin  1 , Hee Young Hwang  2 , Seong Woo Jeon  2
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Comparison of Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection and Surgery for Differentiated Type Early Gastric Cancer within the Expanded Criteria

Dong Woo Shin et al. Clin Endosc. 2017 Mar.

Abstract

Background/aims: Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is a novel alternative treatment for differentiated early gastric cancer (EGC) without lymph node metastasis. We conducted this study to verify the therapeutic usefulness of ESD for treating differentiated EGC compared to that of surgery.

Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study of 382 patients treated with differentiated EGC from March 2006 to May 2010. The propensity score yielded 275 matched patients. They were divided into an ESD group of 175 people and a gastrectomy group of 100 people. The patient demographics, pathologic characteristics, length of hospital stay, complication rate and survival rate were compared.

Results: The complication rate was higher for the gastrectomy group than for the ESD group (15.0% vs. 5.1%, p=0.007). The average length of patient hospitalization was longer after gastrectomy than after ESD (8.6 days vs. 2.4 days, p<0.001). There were two cases of mortality in the surgery group within 30 days of procedure. The 5-year survival rates of the two groups did not show a statistically significant difference (92.0% vs. 93.3%, p=0.496).

Conclusions: The long-term survival rates of ESD and gastrectomy were not significantly different. The complication rate was lower for ESD than for gastrectomy, and the length of hospital stay was shorter after ESD than after gastrectomy.

Keywords: Endoscopic submucosal dissection; Gastrectomy; Stomach neoplasms.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no financial conflicts of interest.

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Flow chart of this study.
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Comparison of survival between endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) and gastrectomy group in the propensity score matched patients (log rank test, p=0.496).
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