Dental-floss traction-assisted endoscopic full-thickness resection of a gastrointestinal exophytic tumor: A case report
Xingcen Chen, Xiaomei Song, Liwei Shi, Hong Guo, Jin Yu · 2026
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Description
Chen, Song, Shi, Guo, and Yu report a single case of stomach tumor removal in twenty twenty-six. The tumor grew outward from the stomach wall, a pattern that makes scope based removal hard. Standard scope methods often fail to remove such tumors fully. Surgery is then the usual fallback.
The team used dental floss to pull on the tumor during the procedure. The pull drew the outward part of the tumor back into the stomach. That gave the team a clearer view and better control of the cut. They then removed the tumor through the full thickness of the stomach wall. The authors present the trick as a practical option for selected outward growing tumors.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xingcen Chen, Xiaomei Song, Liwei Shi, Hong Guo, Jin Yu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 15 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |