Overall curative resection rate was 59.5% in the EMR group and 82.7% in the ESD group. Postoperative bleeding rate was 1.5% and 3.5% and perforation rate was 5.2% and 4.9% in the EMR and ESD ...

The study was designed as a randomized controlled open trial, and was conducted at the Department of Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan.