Yield of EUS-guided FNA of pancreatic masses in the presence or the absence of chronic pancreatitis

S Varadarajulu, A Tamhane, MA Eloubeidi - Gastrointestinal endoscopy, 2005 - Elsevier
… Evaluation of a focal pancreatic mass in the setting of chronic pancreatitis (CP) is a … and
accuracy of EUS-guided FNA (EUS-FNA) in the evaluation of pancreatic-mass lesions in the …

The learning curve for EUS-guided FNA of pancreatic cancer

H Mertz, S Gautam - Gastrointestinal endoscopy, 2004 - Elsevier
… The first 57 EUS-guided FNAs of pancreatic massesmasses, the histopathologic diagnosis
ultimately was cancer. The sensitivity for the EUS-guided FNA diagnosis of adenocarcinoma

EUS-guided FNA for diagnosis of solid pancreatic neoplasms: a meta-analysis

MJ Hewitt, MJW McPhail, L Possamai, A Dhar… - Gastrointestinal …, 2012 - Elsevier
… specificity of EUS-guided FNA in the diagnosis of solid pancreatic cancers. The authors
believe it plays an essential role in the management of patients with solid pancreatic cancers …

A randomized comparison of EUS-guided FNA versus CT or US-guided FNA for the evaluation of pancreatic mass lesions

JD Horwhat, EK Paulson, K McGrath, MS Branch… - Gastrointestinal …, 2006 - Elsevier
… of a pancreatic malignancy based on one or more of the following imaging modalities: US, …
After performing CT/US-FNA or EUS-FNA of pancreatic lesions, our primary end point was …

Frequency of major complications after EUS-guided FNA of solid pancreatic masses: a prospective evaluation

MA Eloubeidi, A Tamhane, S Varadarajulu… - Gastrointestinal …, 2006 - Elsevier
… by endosonographers to counsel patients before EUS-FNA of solid pancreatic masses. …
EUS-FNA of solid pancreatic masses and found that the risk of EUS-FNA of pancreatic masses

EUS-guided FNA of solid pancreatic masses: a learning curve with 300 consecutive procedures

MA Eloubeidi, A Tamhane - Gastrointestinal endoscopy, 2005 - Elsevier
… evaluated in 300 consecutive EUS-FNA of solid pancreatic masses performed by a single
EUS fellowship and had performed 45 supervised pancreatic EUS-FNA during his training. …

Role of endoscopic ultrasoundguided fine needle aspiration (EUSFNA) for diagnosis of solid pancreatic masses

S Yoshinaga, H Suzuki, I Oda, Y Saito - Digestive Endoscopy, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… 74% of pancreatic cancers and 0% of focal pancreatitis lesions.They also mentioned that
analysis for the K-ras point mutation in specimens obtained by EUSguided FNA … from EUS-FNA

EUS-guided FNA diagnostic yield of malignancy in solid pancreatic masses: a benchmark for quality performance measurement

TJ Savides, M Donohue, G Hunt, M Al-Haddad… - Gastrointestinal …, 2007 - Elsevier
… rate for EUS-FNA of solid pancreatic masses would allow … As EUS-FNA becomes more widely
available in a variety of … rate of malignancy in EUS-FNA of solid pancreatic masses and to …

EUS-guided FNA of solid pancreatic masses: a prospective, randomized trial comparing 22-gauge and 25-gauge needles

UD Siddiqui, F Rossi, LS Rosenthal, MS Padda… - Gastrointestinal …, 2009 - Elsevier
… the performance of EUS-FNA with … FNA of all solid pancreatic masses. Patients were excluded
if they had predominantly cystic pancreatic lesions, did not have a mass visualized on EUS

Retrospective analysis of the utility of endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) in pancreatic masses, using a 22-gauge or 25-gauge needle …

TE Yusuf, S Ho, DA Pavey, H Michael, FG Gress - Endoscopy, 2009 - thieme-connect.com
… Patients referred for EUS-guided FNA of pancreatic masses between February 2001 and
June 2007 were retrospectively reviewed and those who underwent EUS-FNA using the 22-…