Reply to the letter to the editor: Lymph node metastasis of adenocarcinoma and different definitions of sm1 cancer in the esophagus

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka, Japan. [email protected].
• ² Department of Endoscopy, Saku Central Hospital Advanced Care Center, Saku, Japan.
• ³ Endoscopy Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁴ Department of Gastroenterology, Keiyukai Daini Hospital, Sapporo, Japan.
• ⁵ Division of Endoscopy, Shizuoka Cancer Center, Shizuoka, Japan.
• ⁶ Department of Gastroenterology, Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁷ Department of Gastroenterology, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁸ Department of Endoscopy, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁹ Department of Esophageal and General Surgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.
• ¹⁰ Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
• ¹¹ Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan.
• ¹² Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
• ¹³ Department of Gastroenterology, Sendai City Medical Center, Sendai, Japan.
• ¹⁴ Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka, Japan.
• ¹⁵ Department of Pathology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
• ¹⁶ Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
• ¹⁷ Department of Pathology, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka, Japan.
• ¹⁸ Department of Medical Informatics, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka, Japan.
• ¹⁹ Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan.