Frequency of mediastinal lymph node metastases in patients undergoing EUS evaluation of pancreaticobiliary masses

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 331-335

  Hahn, Martin ^b   Faigel, Douglas O ^a  

^a PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILE DUCT TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; COMMON BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0035461410     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2001.117549     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Palazzo L, Rouseau G, Gayet B, Vilgrain V, Belghiti J, Fekete F, et al. Endoscopic ultrasonography in the diagnosis and staging of pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Results of a prospective study with comparison to ultrasonography and CT scan. Endoscopy 1993;25:143-50.
2. Harewood GC, Clam TB, Wang KK, Yacavone RE, Wiersema MJ. Assessment of endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration biopsy in the evaluation of pancreatic masses [abstract]. Gastrointest Endosc 2000;51:AB168.
3. Gress F, Savides T, Cummings O, Sherman S, Lehman G, Zaidi S, et al. Radial scanning and linear array endosonography for staging pancreatic cancer: a prospective randomized comparison. Gastrointest Endosc 1997;45:138-42.
4. Chang KJ, Wiersema M, Giovannini M, Vilmann P, Erickson RA. Multi-center collaborative study on endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) guided fine needle aspiration (FNA) of the pancreas [abstract]. Gastrointest Endosc 1996;43:AB417.
5. Wiersema MJ, Vilmaim P, Giovannini M, Chang KJ, Wiersema LM. Endosonography-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy: Diagnostic accuracy and complication assessment. Gastroenterology 1997;112:1087-95.
6. Panelli F, Erickson RA, Prasad V. Clinical utility of EUS/EUS-FNA for mediastinal masses [abstract]. AM J Gastroenterol 1998;93:A51.
7. Jonecko A, Matlachowska-Ciska E, Krzeminska H. Metastasis of pancreatic cancer into the mediastinum simulating esophageal tumor [Polish]. Wiadomosci Lekarskie 1980;33: 811-5.
8. Snady H, Cooperman A, Siegel JH. Endoscopic ultrasonography compared with computed tomography and ERCP in patients with obstructive jaundice or small peripancreatic mass. Gastrointest Endosc 1992;38:27-34.
9. Gress FG, Hawes RH, Savides TJ, Ikenberry SO, Cummings O, Kopecky K, et al. Role of EUS in the preoperative staging of pancreatic cancer; a large single-center experience. Gastrointest Endosc 1999;50:786-91.
10. Fritscher-Ravens A, Sriram PVJ, Bobrowski C, Pforte A, Topalidis T, Krause C, et al. Medistinal lymphadenopathy in patients with or without previous malignancy: EUS-FNA-based differential cytodiagnosis in 153 patients. Am J Gastroenterol 2000;95:2278-84.
11. O'Morchoe CC. Lymphatic system of the pancreas. Microsc Res Techn 1997;37:456-77.
12. Kayahara M, Nagakawa T, Ueno K, Ohta T, Tsukioka Y, Miyazaki I. Surgical strategy for carcinoma of the pancreas head area based on clinicopathologic analysis of nodal involvement and plexus invasion. Surgery 1995;117:616-23.
13. Gress FG, Savides TJ, Sandler A, Kesler K, Conces D, Cummings O, et al. Endoscopic ultrasonography, fine-needle aspiration biopsy guided by endoscopic ultrasonography, and computed tomography in the preoperative staging of non-small cell lung cancer: a comparison study. Ann Intern Med 1997;127:604-12.
14. Durbin TB, Chang KJ. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) criteria for predicting malignant lymph nodes using linear array and radial scans: correlation with EUS-guided fine needle aspiration (FNA) [abstract]. Gastrointest Endosc 1996;43;AB418.
15. Bhutani MS, Hawes RH, Hoffmann BJ, A comparison of the accuracy of echo features during endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) and EUS-guided fine-needle aspiration for diagnosis of malignant lymph node invasion. Gastrointest Endosc 1997; 45:474-9.
16. Faigel DO. Endoscopic ultrasound in patients with benign and malignant lymphadenopathy. Gastrointest Endosc 2001; 53:593-8.