Aims. To review the clinical presentation, diagnosis, assessment of risk of malignancy, and
recent advances in management (mainly focusing on the role of endoscopic resection) of …

As one of the most common mesenchymal malignancies in the digestive system,
gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) occur throughout the alimentary tract with diversified …

Background To avoid excessive sacrifice of the tissue surrounding the submucosal tumor in
gastric wedge resection with a stapling device, we perform a “combined laparoscopic and …

Laparoscopic and endoscopic cooperative surgery (LECS) for gastric submucosal tumors
(SMTs) has been developed under the concept of resecting gastric tumors with both …

Management of upper gastrointestinal (UGI) tract gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) has
evolved significantly over the past two decades. For GIST size smaller than 5 cm …

Background and aims To avoid the risk of iatrogenic dissemination during procedures, we
have developed a combined laparoscopic and endoscopic surgery with a nonexposure …

Early gastric cancer (EGC) has a desirable prognosis compared with advanced gastric
cancer (AGC). The surgical concept of EGC has altered from simply emphasizing radical …

Nonexposed wall-inversion surgery was invented for the treatment of node-negative
gastrointestinal tumors that are difficult to be resected using the endoluminal approach …

Inflammatory fibroid polyp (IFP) appears most often in the stomach. We herein report an
extremely rare case of esophageal IFP resected using laparoscopy endoscopy cooperative …

This is a special review to celebrate the 10 th anniversary of Clinical Endoscopy. Each
deputy editor has selected articles from one's subspecialty that are significant in terms of the …