Ning-Li Chai, Hui-Kai Li, En-Qiang Linghu, Zhao-Shen Li, Shu-Tian Zhang, Yu Bao, Wei-Gang Chen, Philip Wy Chiu, Tong Dang, Wei Gong, Shu-Tang Han, Jian-Yu Hao, Shui-Xiang He, Bing Hu, Bing Hu, Xiao-Jun Huang, Yong-Hui Huang, Zhen-Dong Jin, Mouen A Khashab, James Lau, Peng Li, Rui Li, De-Liang Liu, Hai-Feng Liu, Jun Liu, Xiao-Gang Liu, Zhi-Guo Liu, Ying-Cai Ma, Gui-Yong Peng, Long Rong, Wei-Hong Sha, Pateek Sharma, Jian-Qiu Sheng, Shui-Sheng Shi, Dong Wan Seo, Si-Yu Sun, Gui-Qi Wang, Wen Wang, Qi Wu, Hong Xu, Mei-Dong Xu, Ai-Ming Yang, Fang Yao, Hong-Gang Yu, Ping-Hong Zhou, Bin Zhang, Xiao-Feng Zhang, Ya-Qi Zhai
With the digestive endoscopic tunnel technique (DETT), many diseases that previously would have been treated by surgery are now endoscopically curable by establishing a submucosal tunnel between the mucosa and muscularis propria (MP). Through the tunnel, endoscopic diagnosis or treatment is performed for lesions in the mucosa, in the MP, and even outside the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. At present, the tunnel technique application range covers the following: (1) Treatment of lesions originating from the mucosal layer, e...
February 21, 2019: World Journal of Gastroenterology: WJG