Performance characteristic of endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration is unaffected by pancreatic mass size

Background and study aims: Despite a well-established tool for diagnosis of pancreatic masses, endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) studies have shown suboptimal diagnostic performance at divergent mass sizes. Since the impact of gold standard follow-up and presence of on-si...

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Main Authors: Jayapal Ramesh, Hwasoon Kim, Kartika Reddy, Isam-Eldin A. Eltoum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2016-03-01
Series:Endoscopy International Open
Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0035-1569969