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. 2020 Dec 23;10(1):20. doi: 10.3390/jcm10010020

Figure 1.

Figure 1

A case of steroid injection therapy. (a) Squamous cell carcinoma of the middle thoracic esophagus with a 3/4 circumference, 3 cm long in the long axis. (b) Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) was performed with a mucosal defect of 7 cm in the longitudinal diameter of the 9/10th circumference. (c) Immediately after ESD, triamcinolone (100 mg) was administered locally to the mucosal defect. (d) After the injection, the injected area became white in the submucosa. (e) After two weeks of ESD. The mucosal defect was epithelialized. (f) One year after ESD. No stricture was seen.