Tokyo, Aug. 22 -- UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR) received information related to the study (UMIN000062650) titled 'Positive-pressure ventilation under general anesthesia narrows the endoscopic field during esophageal endoscopic submucosal dissection: a blinded paired image analysis' on Aug. 21.

Study Type: Observational

Primary Sponsor: Institute - St Luke's International Hospital

Condition: Condition - Superficial esophageal cancer Classification by malignancy - Malignancy Genomic information - NO

Objective: Narrative objectives1 - General anesthesia with positive-pressure ventilation may narrow the esophageal lumen during ESD compared with intravenous sedation. This study investigated whether this perceived narrowing reflec...