A prospective, single-blind, randomized, controlled trial of EUS-guided FNA with and without a stylet

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 58-64

  Rastogi, Amit ^a,b   Wani, Sachin ^a,b   Gupta, Neil ^a,b   Singh, Vikas ^a   Gaddam, Srinivas ^a   Reddymasu, Savio ^a,b   Ulusarac, Ozlem ^a   Fan, Fang ^b   Romanas, Maria ^a   Dennis, Katie L ^b   Sharma, Prateek ^a,b   Bansal, Ajay ^a,b   Oropeza Vail, Melissa ^b   Olyaee, Mojtaba ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CELL COUNT; CELLULARITY; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER DISEASE; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEEDLE; NEEDLE STYLET; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SOLID TUMOR; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

AGED; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 79959712501     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2011.02.015     Document Type: Article

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