Table 2.

Long-Term Outcomes of Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection for Early Gastric Cancer

	Choi et al. (2013)4		Kosaka et al. (2014)5		Tanabe et al. (2014)6		Nakamura et al. (2015)7
	AI	EI	AI	EI	AI	EI	AI	EI
Follow-up period, median, mo	24		>60		65		29.5
No. of patients	343	179	297	107	262	159	907	425
En bloc resection, %	97.1	96.1	98.0	89.7	-		99.0	97.4
Curative resection, %	91.5	82.1	96.0	72.0	92.9		96.4	93.4
Local recurrence, no. (%)	6 (1.8)	13 (7.0)	1 (0.3)	4 (3.7)	0	1 (0.6)	2 (0.2)	4 (0.9)
Metastatic recurrence, no. (%)	0	0	0	0	0	1 (0.6)	0	1 (0.2)

AI, absolute indication; EI, expanded indication.