Endoscopic mucosal resection for high-grade dysplasia and intramucosal carcinoma in Barrett’s esophagus: An Italian experience

Table 1 Characteristics of patients and lesions according to histology of mucosa resected at EMR (mean±SD)

	LGD	HGD	IMC	SMC
				(no surgery)
Age (yr)	60.6±8.8	61.76±11.8	56±4.2	73.6±8.3
BE length (cm)	6.6±4.1	3.6±1.8	3.7±1.8	5.8±3.1
Size of lesion (mm)	22.5±8.7	13±10.2	16±5.7	17.6±11.9
Metachronous lesion (%)
No	5 (100)	24 (88.9)	2 (100)	2 (100)
Yes	-	1 (3.7)	-	-
No follow-up endoscopy (%)	-	2 (7.4)	-	-
Total	5	27	2	2

LGD: low-grade dysplasia; HGD: high-grade dysplasia; IMC: intramucosal cancer; SMC: submucosal cancer; BE: Barrett’s esophagus.