A new therapy for refractory gastric cancer bleeding: endoscopic ultrasound-guided lauromacrogol injection

A 71-year-old man was admitted for intractable gastrointestinal bleeding because of residual gastric cancer with liver metastasis ( [Fig.1]). He presented having had three episodes of hematemesis or melena in the previous 30 days. Conventional endoscopic management for bleeding of unresectable gastric cancer is challenging because of the low clinical success rate and high amount of rebleeding [1]. After careful discussion with the patient and...