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Minute lesions of esophageal cancer
M Endo1, T Takemoto, H Shirakabe
1Department of Surgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, School of Medicine, Japan.
Seminars in Surgical Oncology
|January 1, 1986
Abstract:
Fifty-four cases of minute esophageal cancer (1 cm or less in the greatest dimension) were collected and analyzed. Of these 67% were mucosal cancer and 28% were submucosal cancer. Prognosis was anticipated to be good as there was only one case of lymph node metastasis and three of vascular invasion. A lesion of 1 cm can be regarded as curable regardless of its depth of invasion. The endoscopic approach with use of a dye staining technique is useful for detection of or screening for minute esophageal cancer.