Evaluation of endoscopic ultrasound fine-needle aspiration versus fine-needle biopsy and impact of rapid on-site evaluation for pancreatic masses

Background and study aims Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided fine needle aspiration (FNA) is traditionally considered a first-line strategy for diagnosing pancreatic lesions; however, given less than ideal accuracy rates, fine-needle biopsy (FNB) has been recently developed to yield histological tis...

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Main Authors: Diogo T.H. de Moura, Thomas R. McCarty, Pichamol Jirapinyo, Igor B. Ribeiro, Kelly E. Hathorn, Antonio Coutinho Madruga-Neto, Linda S. Lee, Christopher C. Thompson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2020-05-01
Series:Endoscopy International Open
Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/a-1122-8674