Clinical significance of the muscle-retracting sign during colorectal endoscopic submucosal dissection

Clinical significance of the muscle-retracting sign during colorectal endoscopic submucosal dissection

Background and study aims: During colorectal endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD), the feature of a muscle layer being pulled toward a neoplastic tumor is sometimes detected. We call this feature the muscle-retracting sign (MR sign). The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the MR sign is ass...

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Main Authors: Takashi Toyonaga, Shinwa Tanaka, Mariko Man-I, James East, Wataru Ono, Eisei Nishino, Tsukasa Ishida, Namiko Hoshi, Yoshinori Morita, Takeshi Azuma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2015-05-01
Series:Endoscopy International Open
Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0034-1391665

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