Randomized Clinical Trial
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World J Gastroenterol. Sep 21, 2018; 24(35): 4077-4085
Published online Sep 21, 2018. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v24.i35.4077
Figure 1
Figure 1 Flow diagram of this study. We enrolled 117 patients who were scheduled to undergo ESD for gastric tumors from May 2015 to October 2016. A total of 104 patients were randomized to the conventional and the clip-flap groups. After ESD, ten patients had a lesion outside the inclusion criteria of early-stage gastric cancer. ESD: Endoscopic submucosal dissection.