Management of gastric subepithelial tumors: The role of endoscopy

Table 1 Publications reporting conventional and modified endoscopic submucosal dissection for upper gastrointestinal subepithelial tumors originating in the muscularis propria

Ref.	No. of patients	Location	Mean tumor diameter (mm)	Mean procedure time (min)	Resection method	Complete resection rate (%)	Total complication rate (%)	Mean follow-up period (mo)/recurrence in complete resection patients
Lee et al[15] (2006)	11	Cardia/body	20.7	60.9	ESD	75.0	0	10.9/N
Jeong et al[14] (2011)	64	Cardia/fundus/body/antrum	13.8	34.7	Endoscopic enucleation	92.3	12.3	10.01/N
Liu et al[22] (2012)	31	Esophagus/ cardia/stomach	22.1	76.8	EMD	96.8	12.9	17.7/N
He et al[6] (2013)	144	Cardia/fundus/body/antrum	15.1	63.4	ESD	92.4	14.52/4.83	19.1/N
Chu et al[8] (2012)	16	Cardia/fundus/body/antrum	26.1	52.0	Modified ESD with enucleation	93.8	0	14.8/N
Li et al[20] (2013)	11	Fundus	18.8	81.0	ESD	90.9	27.2	6.4/N
Chun et al[2] (2013)	35	Cardia/fundus/body/antrum	18.0	32.3	ESD	74.3	5.7	6.1/N

¹Median follow-up period;

²Perforation;

³Bleeding. ESD: Endoscopic submucosal dissection; N: None; EMD: Endoscopic muscularis dissection.