Assessment of complications of EUS-guided fine-needle aspiration

D O'Toole, L Palazzo, R Arotçarena, A Dancour… - Gastrointestinal …, 2001 - Elsevier
… It has been suggested that cystic lesions represent an increased risk of infectious and
hemorrhagic complications.11, 13 In the present study complications were observed after EUS-…

Endosonography-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy: diagnostic accuracy and complication assessment

MJ Wiersema, P Vilmann, M Giovannini, KJ Chang… - Gastroenterology, 1997 - Elsevier
… (14%) of infectious and/or hemorrhagic complications. Whether pretreatment with antibiotics
would have an impact on this complication rate was not evaluated in this study; however, in …

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration of intramural and extraintestinal mass lesions: diagnostic accuracy, complication assessment, and impact on …

VK Chen, MA Eloubeidi - Endoscopy, 2005 - thieme-connect.com
… The immediate intraprocedural, acute 24-h, and delayed 30-day complications in this study
group were also evaluated, and the impact of the tissue diagnoses on the management of …

Clinical complications following thyroid fineneedle biopsy: a systematic review

SA Polyzos, AD Anastasilakis - Clinical endocrinology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
complications following diagnostic thyroid FNB, aiming to make physicians aware of possible
complications … Clinical assessment before FNB is essential to select patients at greater risk …

The safety of fine-needle aspiration guided by endoscopic ultrasound: a prospective study

M Al-Haddad, MB Wallace, TA Woodward… - …, 2008 - thieme-connect.com
… In another study, selective assessment of complications of solid pancreatic mass FNA in 100
patients showed a 2 % incidence of pancreatitis [10]. In a prospective study, Eloubeidi et al. […

Needle tract seeding: an overlooked rare complication of endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration

K Minaga, M Takenaka, A Katanuma, M Kitano… - Oncology, 2017 - karger.com
… to assess the … of needle tract seeding, a rare complication of EUS-FNA. Second, the follow-up
periods of these studies were rather short to observe the incidence or outcome of needle

Complications of percutaneous abdominal fine-needle biopsy. Review.

EH Smith - Radiology, 1991 - pubs.rsna.org
fine-needle biopsy of abdominal lesions is associated with an increase in serious complications,
… Although infrequent, serious complications may be associated with this procedure. The …

Endoscopic ultrasound–guided fine needle aspiration biopsy of patients with suspected pancreatic cancer: diagnostic accuracy and acute and 30-day complications

MA Eloubeidi, VK Chen, IA Eltoum… - Official journal of the …, 2003 - journals.lww.com
… Although we were able to assess immediate complications in all patients, we assessed
complications in 24–72 h and 30 days in only the later cohort because of the need for a …

Prospective assessment of diagnostic utility and complications of endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration: results from a newly developed academic …

MA Eloubeidi, A Tamhane - Digestive Diseases, 2009 - karger.com
… diagnostic accuracy and major complications of EUS-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-…
Major complications were defined as oversedation, and those that resulted in a physician or …

Diagnostic accuracy and complication rate of CT-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy of lung lesions: a study based on the experience of the cytopathologist

AM Priola, SM Priola, A Cataldi, MD Franco… - Acta …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
needle biopsy is a well-established technique for the diagnosis of focal lung lesions. Fine
needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) requires the presence of a cytopathologist on-site to assess