AIM To evaluate the efficacy and safety of endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) using the clutch cutter (CC) (ESD-CC) for gastric adenoma (GA). METHODS From June 2007 to August 2015, 122 consecutive patients with histological diagnoses of GA from specimens resected by ESD-CC were enrolled in this prospective study. The CC was used for all ESD steps (marking, mucosal incision, submucosal dis...

This paper presents a detailed investigation of the degradation of electrostatic discharge (ESD) strength with high gate bias for deep-submicron salicided ESD protection nMOS transistors, which has significant implications for protection designs where high gate coupling occurs under ESD stress. It has been shown that gate-bias-induced heating is the primary cause of early ESD failure and that t...

Energy storage devices (ESDs) such as lithium-ion batteries and flywheels have the potential to revolutionize the electricity grid by allowing the smoothing of variable-energy generator output, and the time-shifting of demand away from peak times. Numerous recent investigations have studied the impact of ESDs on energy systems, but usually by assuming ideal ESD behaviour, such as infinite ESD c...

Gastric cancer is one of the most common cancers. Early detection is critical for its curative treatment. Endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) is accepted as a treatment of choice for differentiated early gastric cancer (EGC). Recently, Gotoda et al. provided important information on the risks of lymph node metastasis in a large EGC series (1). Based on their analyses, the expanded criteria for e...

ESD, the discharge of electrostatically generated charges into an IC, is one of the most important reliability problems for ultra-scaled devices. This electrostatic charge can generate voltages of up to tens of kilovolts. These very high voltages can generate very high electric fields and currents across semiconductor devices, which may result in dielectric damage or melting of semiconductors a...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) was developed in Japan and has been performed on many patients with early stage esophageal cancer; however quality of life in patients with postoperative stricture is drastically decreased and repeat, periodic endoscopic balloon dilatation (EBD) is usually required over long periods. In this study, we evaluate the efficacy of short peri...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) carries significant advantages over endoscopic mucosal resection. As such, ESD is an established therapy for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma but there are only limited data on ESD as therapy for Barrett's esophagus (BE). Thus, we prospectively evaluated the outcomes of ESD in patients with BE with high-grade dysplasia (HGD) and...

Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) has been accepted as a minimal invasive alternative to surgery for localized superficial gastrointestinal neoplasms recently. However, the procedure remains to be technically challenging and time consuming. A new dissecting knife with partially insulated tip has been recently developed with built-in injection capability. The purpose of this study was to in...

Objectives. Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is an effective method for en bloc removal of large colorectal tumors in Japan, but this technique is not yet widely established in western countries. The purpose here was to report the experience of implementing colorectal ESD in Sweden. Methods. Twenty-nine patients with primarily nonmalignant and early colorectal neoplasms considered to be t...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to measure the patient entrance skin dose (ESD) during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for chronic total occlusion (CTO), and assess the factors that affect it. METHODS AND RESULTS Radiosensitive indicators were used to measure ESDs during 23 procedures. Multiple regression analysis identified the strength of the linear relationship of the depende...