[Endoscopic ultrasonic diagnosis of esophageal cancer]

Endoscopic Ultrasonography (EUS) has been developed rapidly and is becoming a new routine examination of the digestive diseases. In this thesis, the usefulness of EUS with reference to the diagnosis of the depth and the margins of the cancer invasion and the metastatic lymph nodes is described. Furthermore, the judgment of the efficacy of the combined therapy including radiotherapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy will be possible with EUS. The information from EUS is useful to determine the treatment plan of esophageal cancer. Therefore, EUS is expected to become a preoperative necessary examination of cases with esophageal cancer.