Περίληψη:
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.
Συγγραφείς:
Koukoulioti, Eleni
Tziatzios, Georgios
Tadic, Mario and
Dimitriadis, Stavros
Gkolfakis, Paraskevas
Politi, Ekaterini and
Stoos-Veic, Tajana
Turcic, Petra
Chatzidakis, Alexandros and
Lazaridis, Lazaros-Dimitrios
Farmaki, Maria
Vezakis, Antonios
and Triantafyllou, Konstantinos
Polydorou, Andreas
Papanikolaou,
Ioannis S.
