TY - JOUR
TI - Two Needle Passes Achieve Similar Diagnostic Yield Compared to Three
Passes Regarding Diagnosis of Solid Pancreatic Lesions in Endoscopic
Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration
AU - Koukoulioti, Eleni
AU - Tziatzios, Georgios
AU - Tadic, Mario and
AU - Dimitriadis, Stavros
AU - Gkolfakis, Paraskevas
AU - Politi, Ekaterini and
AU - Stoos-Veic, Tajana
AU - Turcic, Petra
AU - Chatzidakis, Alexandros and
AU - Lazaridis, Lazaros-Dimitrios
AU - Farmaki, Maria
AU - Vezakis, Antonios
AU - and Triantafyllou, Konstantinos
AU - Polydorou, Andreas
AU - Papanikolaou,
AU - Ioannis S.
JO - DIAGNOSTIC ONCOLOGY
PY - 2021
VL - 11
TODO - 12
SP - null
PB - MDPI
SN - null
TODO - 10.3390/diagnostics11122272
TODO - endoscopic; ultrasound; pancreatic; fine; needle; aspiration
TODO - 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.
ER -