title: [Endoscopic treatment of early gastric cancer with heat probe method].
abstract: The heat probe method, which was developed as an instrument for hemostasis, has a strong coagulating effect and can be applied to the treatment of early gastric cancer. Intramucosal, differentiated adenocarcinomas of the protruded type with less than 20 mm diameter were most effectively treated with the endoscopic heat probe method. As compared with laser or microwave, heat probe treatment is inexpensive and portable, and it can be used in patients who are not candidates for surgery or who refuse surgery.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Internal Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Otsuka
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D004564:Electrocoagulation / Q000379:methods*; D005773:Gastroscopy; D006801:Humans; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*