How can we make the learning curve of endoscopic submucosal dissection for (Western) endoscopists less steep?

Alanna Ebigbo; Helmut Messmann

doi:10.1055/s-0042-110399

Endoscopy, Table of Contents

Endoscopy 2016; 48(08): 697-698
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-110399

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How can we make the learning curve of endoscopic submucosal dissection for (Western) endoscopists less steep?

Alanna Ebigbo

Department of Gastroenterology, Klinikum Augsburg, Germany

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Helmut Messmann

Department of Gastroenterology, Klinikum Augsburg, Germany

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