Management of gastric subepithelial tumors: The role of endoscopy

Table 2 Publications reporting endoscopic submucosal tunnel 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
Inoue et al[10] (2012)	7	Esophagus/cardia	19.0	152	Submucosal endoscopic tumor resection	100	0	5.5/N
Gong et al[24] (2012)	12	Esophagus/cardia	19.5	48.3	ESTD	83.3	16.7	NA
Liu et al[26] (2013)	12	Esophagus/cardia	18.5	78.3	tEMD	100	66.7	7.1/N
Ye et al[25] (2014)	85	Esophagus/cardia/stomach	19.2	57.2	STER	100	9.4	81/N
Zhou et al[27] (2015)	21	Esophagogastric junction	23.0	62.9	STER	100	42.9	61/N

¹Median follow-up period. ESTD: Endoscopic submucosal tunnel dissection; N: None; NA: Not available; tEMD: Tunneling endoscopic muscularis dissection; STER: Submucosal tunneling and endoscopic resection.