Similar technological developments have already made possible what was just a fantasy a few years back: performance of endoscopic resections of early gastric cancers with curability rates close to the "gold standard" of radical surgery with lymphadenectomy 3.
Dicho desarrollo tecnológico planteó la posibilidad, hasta hace algunos años fantasiosa, de realizar resecciones endoscópicas de las neoplasias tempranas gástricas con tasas de curabilidad cercanas al "Patrón de oro" la cirugía radical con vaciamiento ganglionar 3.