ArticleInternational journal of colorectal disease2021
Endoscopic full thickness resection vs. transanal endoscopic microsurgery for local treatment of rectal neuroendocrine tumors - a retrospective analysis.
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- Rigid-platform transanal excision (TEM/TEO/TAMIS) for rectal neuroendocrine tumours: a single-centre TEM/TEO series and systematic review.Updates in surgery · 2026Pooled it
- NANETS Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of stage I-III rectal neuroendocrine tumors.Endocrine-related cancer · 2026Guideline
- The Effectiveness and Safety of Endoscopic Intermuscular Dissection for the Treatment of Rectal Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors: A Pilot Feasibility Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Tumor count and risk of lymph node metastasis in multiple rectal neuroendocrine tumors: an individual-level pooled analysis.World journal of surgical oncology · 2026Article
- Recent updates on the endoscopic treatment of rectal neuroendocrine tumor.Intestinal research · 2026Review
- Defining endoscopic candidacy for intermediate size rectal neuroendocrine tumors.World journal of gastroenterology · 2026Article
- Transanal endoscopic microsurgery in the treatment of rectal neuroendocrine tumors: a retrospective 10-year single-center experience.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2025Article
- Endoscopic Full Thickness Resection Device (FTRDDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Endoscopic full-thickness resection: A definitive solution for local complete resection of small rectal neuroendocrine neoplasms.World journal of gastroenterology · 2025Article
- Comparison of endoscopic submucosal dissection and transanal endoscopic microsurgery for stage 1 rectal neuroendocrine tumors.World journal of gastrointestinal endoscopy · 2025Article
- Impact of grade on workup of rectal neuroendocrine tumors: a retrospective cohort study : Grade impact on workup of rectal NETs.World journal of surgical oncology · 2024Article
- Trans-anal endoscopic microsurgery for non- adenomatous rectal lesions.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2023Article
- Role of Advanced Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in the Comprehensive Management of Neuroendocrine Neoplasms.Cancers · 2023Review
- [Interventional endoscopy in gastroenterology].Innere Medizin (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- Efficacy of Endoscopic Resection for Rectal Neuroendocrine Tumors Smaller than 15 mm.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2023Article
- Review
- Endoscopic treatment and management of rectal neuroendocrine tumors less than 10 mm in diameter.World journal of gastrointestinal endoscopy · 2023Review
- State of the Art in Endoscopic Therapy for the Management of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors.Current treatment options in oncology · 2022Review
- Transanal endoscopic microsurgery: exploring its indications and novel applications. A narrative review.Wideochirurgia i inne techniki maloinwazyjne = Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques · 2022Review
- Long-term outcomes of transanal endoscopic microsurgery for the treatment of rectal neuroendocrine tumors.BMC surgery · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeLocal treatment of small well-differentiated rectal neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) is recommended by current guidelines. However, although several endoscopic methods have been established, the highest R0 rate is achieved by transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM). Since a recently published study about endoscopic full thickness resection (eFTR) showed a R0 resection rate of 100%, the aim of this study was to evaluate both methods (eFTR vs. TEM).
methodsWe retrospectively analyzed all patients with rectal NET treated either by TEM (1999-2018) or eFTR (2016-2019) in two tertiary centers (University Hospital Wuerzburg and Ulm). We analyzed clinical, procedural, and histopathological outcomes in both groups.
resultsTwenty-eight patients with rectal NET received local treatment (TEM: 13; eFTR: 15). Most tumors were at stage T1a and grade G1 or G2 (in the TEM group two G3 NETs were staged T2 after neoadjuvant chemotherapy). In both groups, similar outcomes for en bloc resection rate, R0 resection rate, tumor size, or specimen size were found. No procedural adverse events were noted. Mean procedure time in the TEM group was 48.9 min and 19.2 min in the eFTR group.
conclusioneFTR is a convincing method for local treatment of small rectal NETs combining high safety and efficacy with short interventional time.
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