@article{3033097,
    title = "Two Needle Passes Achieve Similar Diagnostic Yield Compared to Three
Passes Regarding Diagnosis of Solid Pancreatic Lesions in Endoscopic
Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration",
    author = "Koukoulioti, Eleni and Tziatzios, Georgios and Tadic, Mario and and Dimitriadis, Stavros and Gkolfakis, Paraskevas and Politi, Ekaterini and and Stoos-Veic, Tajana and Turcic, Petra and Chatzidakis, Alexandros and and Lazaridis, Lazaros-Dimitrios and Farmaki, Maria and Vezakis, Antonios and and Triantafyllou, Konstantinos and Polydorou, Andreas and Papanikolaou, and Ioannis S.",
    journal = "DIAGNOSTIC ONCOLOGY",
    year = "2021",
    volume = "11",
    number = "12",
    publisher = "MDPI",
    doi = "10.3390/diagnostics11122272",
    keywords = "endoscopic; ultrasound; pancreatic; fine; needle; aspiration",
    abstract = "Current guidelines advocate 3-4 passes with a fine-needle aspiration
(FNA) to achieve high rates of diagnostic samples for malignancy when
performing endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided sampling of solid
pancreatic lesions, in the absence of on-site cytologic evaluation. The
aim of this study is to compare 2 vs. 3 needle passes in EUS-FNA for
solid pancreatic lesions in terms of incremental diagnostic yield and to
identify factors associated with the procedure's outcome. In this
retrospective study, 2 passes of EUS-FNA were found to have similar
diagnostic yield compared to 3 passes for the diagnosis of solid
pancreatic masses, suggesting that there might be no significant
incremental tissue yield when 3 passes are performed."
}