Endoscopy Podcast October 2014 - Zhou et al

Conventional vs. waterjet-assisted endoscopic submucosal dissection in early gastric cancer: a randomized controlled trial Ping-Hong Zhou, Brigitte Schumacher, Li-Qing Yao, Mei-Dong Xu, Thomas Nordmann, Ming-Yan Cai, Jean-Pierre Charton, Michael Vieth, Horst Neuhaus Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is technically challenging and time consuming. This randomized trial from China and Germany in patients with early gastric cancer shows that the new technique of waterjet-assisted ESD utilizing a hybrid knife required significantly fewer device exchanges and reduced procedure time compared with conventional ESD. Bibliography DOI http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1055/s-0034-1377580 Published online: 0.0. Endoscopy 2014; 46: 836–842 © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart • New York ISSN 0013-726X