It’s divided into T1a and T1b: T1a means the tumour is within the inner layers of the stomach (the mucosa) T1b means the tumour has grown through the mucosa and into a layer of supportive tissue ...

In fact, if the cancer is confined to the first layer of the stomach, it can be removed endoscopically. Endoscopic mucosal ...

EUS can detect lesions as small as 2-3 mm in size and is the best method for determining the five echo layers of the stomach. The five echo layers are histologically correlated with the mucosa ...

Gastric Mucosal Ablation Does Not Require Surgical ... the doctor carefully burns off the mucosa, the layer of the fundus where the cells that make the hunger hormone ghrelin are found.

Gastric adenocarcinoma is a malignant tumor that develops in the innermost layer (mucosa) of the stomach and accounts for more than 90% of cases of this type. Stomach cancer is the sixth most ...

An infiltration of >30 eosinophils per high-power field in at least five high-power fields, exhibiting signs of eosinophilic degranulation and extending to the muscularis mucosa or submucosa are ...

When Jeffrey Lipow went in for a routine endoscopy, it revealed a serious problem. A follow-up endoscopic ultrasound confirmed he had a tumor under ...