Introduction Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) is a well established modality, in particular, fine needle aspiration (FNA) is used to sample suspicious lesions. The uptake in EUS is not well documented with ...

BACKGROUND Endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration biopsy (EUS-FNA) is a recent innovation in the evaluation of gastrointestinal and pulmonary malignancies. AIMS To review the experience ...

thorax.dk Background: A study was undertaken to evaluate the clinical impact of endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration biopsy (EUS-FNA) in patients with mediastinal masses suspected of ...

Thus, EUS-FNA should be carried out if peritoneal fluid is found on EUS. Endoscopic ultrasound-guided FNA can also detect small pleural effusion and obtain pleural fluid for cytology. This ...

V. Sahai, “A First Report of Tumor Seeding Because of EUS-guided FNA of a Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma,” Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Vol. 61, No. 4, 2005, pp. 610-611. [24] S. Dahl and M. B. Mortensen, ...

During the study period 1331 EUS examinations were performed, of which 342 were EUS-FNA procedures. One hundred EUS-FNA procedures were performed on 93 individuals for the assessment of solid ...

1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK 2 Thoracic Oncology Unit, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK Correspondence to ...

Endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle biopsy has high diagnostic ... Application of EUS in the Diagnosis of Pancreatic Diseases 2.1. EUS-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration/Biopsy (EUS-FNA/B) 2.3.

Methods: All cases of endoscopic ultrasound-guided tissue acquisition (EUS-TA) by 19G FNA or 22G FNB for SPLs in a single-centre hospital were retrospectively reviewed. The diagnostic yield was ...

Wallace and colleagues compared the accuracy of three endoscopic techniques — blind transbronchial needle aspiration, endobronchial ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (EBUS-FNA ...

The FNA service emphasizes head and neck lesions, including thyroid, and provides exceptional training in diagnosing endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided biopsies of pancreatic, gastric, and mediastinal ...