Use of traction during endoscopic submucosal dissection for T1b esophageal cancer is associated with negative vertical margins, according to results from a retrospective analysis of patients undergoing the procedure at 10 academic tertiary referral centers in the United States and Brazil.
The study, published in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (2023;99[5]:694-670), included use of traction techniques such as tunneling and pocket creation as well as devices such as clip-line traction and traction