Management of gastric subepithelial tumors: The role of endoscopy

Table 3 Publications reporting endoscopic full-thickness resection with or without laparoscopy for gastric subepithelial tumors

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
Hiki et al[31] (2008)	7	Esophagogastric junction/stomach	46	169	LECS	100	0	NA
Abe et al[33] (2009)	4	Body	30	201	LAEFR	100	0	8/N
Tsujimoto et al[32] (2012)	20	Esophagogastric junction/body/antrum	37.9	157.5	LECS	100	0	20.7/N
Ye et al[18] (2014)	51	Fundus/body/antrum	24	52	EFTR	98	0	22.41/N
Mitsui et al[36] (2014)	6	Body	22.7	273.5	NEWS	100	0	8/N
Schmidt et al[11] (2015)	31	Carida/fundus/body/antrum	20.5	60	EFTR	90.3	9.62/38.73	7 (roughly)/N

¹Median follow up period;

²Perforation;

³Bleeding. LECS: Laparoscopic and endoscopic cooperative surgery; NA: Not available; LAEFR: Laparoscopy-assisted endoscopic full-thickness resection; N: None; EFTR: Endoscopic full-thickness resection; NEWS: Non-exposed endoscopic wall-inversion surgery.