Introduction Endoscopic ultrasound‐guided fine needle aspiration cytology (EUS‐FNA) is
considered to be a minimally invasive and safe technique, with low complication rates, for …

Methods CGP was attempted for 105 samples from 94 patients with BTC at the Aichi Cancer
Center, Japan, from October 2019 to April 2022. Results Overall, 77.1%(81/105) of the …

Background Both EUS and ERCP sampling techniques may provide tissue diagnoses in
suspected malignant biliary obstruction. However, there are scant data comparing these 2 …

Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) was introduced in 1980 and has developed
considerably in the past 30 years. Primarily useful for the detection and staging of …

Results: At EUS, all the patients were found to have an echo-poor mass arising from the
gallbladder wall or within the lumen of the gallbladder. EUS-FNA of the gallbladder masses …

Background Gallbladder cancer (GBC) is highly aggressive. Diagnosis of GBC is
challenging as benign gallbladder lesions can have similar imaging features. We aim to …

BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of pancreatic neoplasm is challenging in patients with
inconclusive findings on pancreatic multidetector row CT (MDCT). OBJECTIVE: To …

Objective Fine needle aspiration (FNA) is not a commonly performed procedure for
gallbladder lesions for fear of causing biliary peritonitis; hence data on gallbladder cytology …

Background: The prognosis of gallbladder carcinoma is dismal and relates to the depth of
invasion as expressed by the T factor in TNM staging. We evaluated the utility of endoscopic …

BACKGROUND: EUS has recently been shown to be efficacious for the preoperative
assessment of depth of invasion of gallbladder carcinoma. This study assessed the value of …