Table 1.

The Published Studies on Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Cooperation Surgery and Laparoscopy-Assisted Endoscopic Full-Thickness Resection

Author	Year	Diagnosis	Number of patients	Tumor size (mean, mm)	Complete resection ratea) (%)	Method of closure	Conversion to gastrectomy (%)	Complications
Hiki et al. [5]	2008	SET	7	46	100	Linear stapler	0	None
Abe et al. [6]	2008	EGC	1	30	100	Manual suture	0	None
Abe et al. [7]	2009	SET	4	37	100	Manual suture	0	None
Cho et al. [8]	2011	EGC	14	26	100	Linear stapler & manual suture	35.7 (5/14)	Leakage (n=1)
Tsujimoto et al. [9]	2012	SET	20	37.9	100	Linear stapler	0	None
Nunobe et al. [10]	2012	EGC	1	60	100	Linear stapler	0	None
Hur et al. [11]	2014	EGC	10	14.8	100	Manual suture	10	None
Kwon et al. [12]	2015	SET	6	31	100	Manual suture	0	None
Matsuda et al. [13]	2016	SET	100	30.9	100	Linear stapler	0	Leakage (n=1)
								Postoperative stasis (n=2)

SET, subepithelial tumor; EGC, early gastric cancer.

^a)En bloc resection and clear resection margin.