Risk-stratified clinical management of superficially invasive esophageal squamous cell carcinoma after endoscopic resection: finding the sweet spot.

An introduction is presented where in the editor discusses articles published within the issue on topics including risk-stratified management approach for patients with superficially invasive esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), risk of lymph node metastasis (LNM) and computed tomography.