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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Background and Aims: Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) is a safe and accurate technique for diagnosing pancreatic cancer. The value of repeat EUS-FNA in patients with ...

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 ...