Landscape of Psychological Profiles in Patients With Esophageal Achalasia.

Introduction: Esophageal achalasia (EA) is a chronic esophageal dysmotility disease, of which psychological distress was poorly understood. This study aims to assess the status of psychosocial characteristics in EA and to determine the relationship between psychological distress and EA.

Methods: Seventy pairs of age and gender-matched patients with EA and healthy control individuals were prospectively enrolled from December 2019 to April 2020 at our hospital.

Endoscopic resection of colorectal granular cell tumors.

Aim: To determine the feasibility and effectiveness of endoscopic resection for the treatment of colorectal granular cell tumors (GCTs).

Methods: This was a retrospective study performed at a single institution. From January 2008 to April 2015, we examined a total of 11 lesions in 11 patients who were treated by an endoscopic procedure for colorectal GCTs in the Endoscopy Center, Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

New progress in endoscopic treatment of esophageal diseases.

The technique of endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD), which was developed for en bloc resection of large lesions in the stomach, has been widely accepted for the treatment of the entire gastrointestinal tract. Many minimally invasive endoscopic therapies based on ESD have been developed recently. Endoscopic submucosal excavation, submucosal tunneling endoscopic resection and laparoscopic-endoscopic cooperative surgery have been used to remove submucosal tumors, especially tumors which originate from the muscularis propria of the digestive tract.

Self-expandable metallic stent placement plus laparoscopy for acute malignant colorectal obstruction.

Aim: To investigate the clinical advantages of the stent-laparoscopy approach to treat colorectal cancer (CRC) patients with acute colorectal obstruction (ACO).

Methods: From April 2008 to April 2012, surgery-related parameters, complications, overall survival (OS), and disease-free survival (DFS) of 74 consecutive patients with left-sided CRC presented with ACO who underwent self-expandable metallic stent (SEMS) placement followed by one-stage open (n = 58) or laparoscopic resection (n = 16) were evaluated retrospectively. The stent-laparoscopy group was also compared with a control group of 96 CRC patients who underwent regular laparoscopy without ACO between January 2010 and December 2011 to explore whether SEMS placement influenced the laparoscopic procedure or reduced long-term survival by influencing CRC oncological characteristics.