Clinical Applicability of Various Treatment Approaches for Upper Gastrointestinal Submucosal Tumors

Table 5

Detailed analysis of the locations, originating layers, and long diameters of the tumors and the corresponding treatment choices.

		EMR	ESD	STER	ESE	Endoscopic surgery	Laparotomy	Total
Esophagus	Upper part	10	7	0	0	0	0	17
	Middle part	19	9	6	0	5	0	39
	Lower part	10	8	2	0	5	0	25
	Total	39	24	8	0	10	0	81
Stomach	Gastric cardia	0	1	4	0	5	0	10
	Gastric fundus	0	1	0	2	6	2	11
	Junction between gastric body and fundus	0	0	1	0	3	0	4
	Gastric body	0	1	1	1	21	3	27
	Gastric transitional zone	0	1	0	0	3	0	4
	Gastric antrum	0	15	0	0	6	2	23
	Total	0	19	6	3	44	7	79
Duodenum	Duodenal bulb	1	0	0	0	0	1	2
	Junction between duodenal bulb and descending duodenum	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
	Descending duodenum	1	1	0	0	0	0	2
	Total	2	1	0	0	1	1	5
Originating layer	2nd layer	41	23	6	0	6	0	76
	3rd layer	0	20	1	1	5	1	28
	4th layer	0	1	7	2	43	7	60
	5th layer	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Long diameter (cm)	Minimum value	0.31	0.4	0.78	1.1	0.67	1.2
	Maximum value	3.5	4	2.47	1.8	6	6.2
	Mean value	0.69	1.43	1.34	1.42	2.89	2.79
Number of lesions < 2 cm		40	36	13	3	10	2	104
Number of lesions ≥ 2 cm		1	8	1	0	44	6	60
Total		41	44	14	3	54 (+1)	8	165