EUS-guided FNA: better samples with smaller needles?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1098-1100

  Gerke, Henning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BLEEDING; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INFECTION; NEEDLE; PANCREAS BIOPSY; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; TUMOR SEEDING; VASCULAR LESION;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; NEEDLES; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70749109493     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2009.06.033     Document Type: Editorial

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