Recent advances in endoscopic management of gastric neoplasms

Figure 3 Submucosal tunneling endoscopic resection of a gastric subepithelial tumor located in the antrum. A: A gastric subepithelial tumor located in the antrum; B: A longitudinal mucosal incision was made about 3 cm from targeted tumor after submucosal injection; C: The tumor was gradually exposed by endoscopic dissection in the submucosal tunnel; D: After tumor resection and retrieval, the submucosal tunnel was closed by metal clips; E: The resected submucosal tumor; F: Schematic picture of the procedure; upper left picture showing the endoscope approaching the tumor in the tunnel for dissection. A-F: Citation: Lu J, Jiao T, Li Y, Liu Y, Wang Y, Wang Y, Zheng M, Lu X. Heading toward the right direction-solution package for endoscopic submucosal tunneling resection in the stomach. PLoS One 2015; 10: e0119870. Copyright© The Authors 2014. Published by PLOS. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited (available from: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0119870).