EUS-guided FNA of solid pancreatic masses: high yield of 2 passes with combined histologic-cytologic analysis

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 60-69

  Möller, Kathleen ^a   Papanikolaou, Ioannis S ^a   Toermer, Thomas ^a   Delicha, Eumorphia M ^a   Sarbia, Mario ^a   Schenck, Ulrich ^a   Koch, Martin ^a   Al Abadi, Hussain ^a   Meining, Alexander ^a   Schmidt, Harald ^a   Schulz, Hans Joachim ^a   Wiedenmann, Bertram ^a   Rösch, Thomas ^a  

^a Department of Internal Medicine I   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS TUMOR; PANCREATITIS; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67649292793     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2008.10.008     Document Type: Article

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