Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital and Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College

Hybrid endoscopic submucosal dissection enhances efficiency with comparable curative outcomes: a Bayesian meta-analysis, systematic review, and Monte Carlo simulation of randomized controlled trials

Background/Aims: Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers accounted for 3.24 million deaths worldwide in 2022. Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) enables en bloc resection of early neoplasms but is time-intensive and technically challenging. Hybrid ESD (H-ESD), which combines dissection...