Matsui, Hiroaki
Tamai, Naoto
Futakuchi, Toshiki
Kamba, Shunsuke
Dobashi, Akira
Sumiyama, Kazuki
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Ministry of Education,Culture,Sports,Science and Technology (JP18K15763)
Article History
Received: 19 July 2021
Accepted: 24 December 2021
First Online: 6 January 2022
Declarations
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: The IRB of our institution judged that the ex vivo pilot study needed not be approved by IRB for. The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) judged that approval was not required for the ex vivo pilot study because we only used extracted porcine stomach model. Clinical feasibility evaluation of gastric ESD using MLTD was approved by the ethics committee of the Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan (no. 31–109(9608)), and it conforms to the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: SK and KS hold a patent on multi-loop traction device. AD has intellectual property with Medtronic related to the magnet traction device. HM, NT, and TF have no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose.