“…Thus, we assume that endoscopic approach should be highly selective. To our knowledge, our study contains the largest number of GIST in the UGIT resected by the endoscopic procedure, considering that previous studies only included small number of case series attached to clinical data of gastric SETs resected by ESD, STER or EFTR, [15][16][17][18][19][20][27][28][29][30] and their follow-up duration was relatively short, ranging from 2 to 21 months, 15,17,20,27,28,30,31 or even not presented. 16,18,29 Endoscopically resected cases in our study were followed up for 46 months on average, longer than previous studies, but nevertheless, the recurrence rate was 2.2%.…”