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Distinction between T1 cancer limited to the mucosa and T1 cancer invading the submucosa is mandatory before conservative treatment, especially mucosectomy, because of very different risk of metastatic lymph nodes in each group. Usual endoscopic ultrasound (7.5/12 MHz) is not accurate to make this distinction. Japanese have reported large series with promising results by using 20 MHz miniprobes. Our...