Can we simplify terminology in the endoscopic treatment of superficial gastrointestinal neoplasia? Yes, we can.

We have read with great interest the papers by Cao et al. [1] and Yoshida et al. [2] on the outcomes of mucosectomy and submucosal dissection of early colorectal neoplasia. The proliferation of different definitions (“mucosectomy,” “submucosectomy,” “submucosal dissection” etc.), in our opinion, has generated some confusion, almost as if they referred to different procedures. We believe that it might be useful to refer to these procedures using the single term of “endoscopic resection.” This term should comprehensively include all the different terminologies adopted to date, from polypectomy to submucosal dissection, which, indeed, do merely represent diverse technical modalities for performing the same procedure.