Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy (EUS-FNAB): Past, present, and future

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1013-1023

  Yamao, Kenji ^a   Sawaki, Akira ^a   Mizuno, Nobumasa ^a   Shimizu, Yasuhiro ^a   Yatabe, Yasushi ^a   Koshikawa, Takashi ^b  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Aichi Prefectural College of Nursing and Health   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complication; EUS FNA; EUS FNAB; Indication

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM TUMOR; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GIEMSA STAIN; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 30344482593     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: 14355922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-005-1717-6     Document Type: Review

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