Reliability of gross visual assessment of specimen adequacy during EUS-guided FNA of pancreatic masses

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1264-1270

  Nguyen, Yume P ^a   Maple, John T ^a   Zhang, Qin ^a   Ylagan, Lourdes R ^a   Zhai, Jing ^a   Kohlmeier, Cara ^a   Jonnalagadda, Sreenivasa ^a   Early, Dayna S ^a   Edmundowicz, Steven A ^a   Azar, Riad R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 66049164114     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2008.08.030     Document Type: Article

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