Puncture of solid pancreatic tumors guided by endoscopic ultrasonography: A pilot study series comparing trucut and 19-gauge and 22-gauge aspiration needles

Endoscopy

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 362-366

  Itoi, T ^a   Itokawa, F ^a   Sofuni, A ^a   Nakamura, K ^a   Tsuchida, A ^a   Yamao, K ^b   Kawai, T ^a   Moriyasu, F ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NEEDLE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PANCREAS TUMOR; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLID TUMOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLES; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 17644411105     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-826156     Document Type: Article

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