title: Endoscopical segmental piecemeal tumorectomy for nodular elevation of colorectal tumor: applicability and patient's quality of life.
abstract: Endoscopical segmental piecemeal tumorectomy (ESPT) for nodular elevation of colorectal tumor is advantageous in terms of minimizing both surgical invasion and postoperative burden to the patients. Nodular elevation of colorectal tumors is said to occur when the body of the tumor is adenomatous and the surface of the focal cancer grows more horizontally into the lumen than vertically. We report here four cases of nodular elevation of colorectal tumors which were each treated by different surgical procedures.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Surgery, Okayama University Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ariki
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Iwagaki
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yoshino
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nonaka
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fujiki
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Perdomo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hizuta
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tomoda
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tsuji
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003113:Colonoscopy; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged