Indications, results, and clinical impact of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided sampling in gastroenterology: European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) Clinical Guideline

Endoscopy

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 897-909

  Dumonceau, J M ^a   Polkowski, M ^b   Larghi, A ^c   Vilmann, P ^d   Giovannini, M ^e   Frossard, J L ^a   Heresbach, D ^f   Pujol, B ^g   Fernndez Esparrach, G ^h   Vazquez Sequeiros, E ⁱ   Gins, A ^h  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e INSTITUT PAOLI CALMETTES   (France)

^f Cannes Hospital   (France)

^g Hopital Prive Jean Mermoz   (France)

^h HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

ⁱ HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN;

ADRENAL DISEASE; ADRENAL GLAND MASS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BIOPSY; BITE ON BITE BIOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSE ESOPHAGEAL THICKENING; DISTANT METASTASIS; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FOCAL SOLID LIVER LESION; GASTRIC WALL THICKENING; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG CANCER; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOMA; MEDIASTINAL LESION; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METASTASIS; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS TUMOR; PANCREATIC CYSTIC APPEARING LESION; PANCREATIC SOLID MASS; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH TUMOR; SUBMUCOSAL TUMOR; TREATMENT INDICATION; TRUCUT BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 80053957854     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: 14388812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1256754     Document Type: Article

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