The role of EUS elastography-guided fine needle biopsy in the histological diagnosis of solid pancreatic lesions: a prospective exploratory study

Abstract This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of Endoscopic ultrasound elastography-guided fine needle biopsy (EUS-EG-FNB) for the diagnosis of pancreatic mass lesions. EUS-EG images were classified into heterogeneous and homogeneous groups. For the heterogeneous group, EUS-FNB...

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Main Authors: Eizaburo Ohno, Hiroki Kawashima, Takuya Ishikawa, Yasuyuki Mizutani, Tadashi Iida, Ryo Nishio, Kota Uetsuki, Jun Yashika, Kenta Yamada, Masakatsu Yoshikawa, Noriaki Gibo, Toshinori Aoki, Kunio Kataoka, Hiroshi Mori, Yoshihisa Takada, Hironori Aoi, Hidekazu Takahashi, Takeshi Yamamura, Kazuhiro Furukawa, Masanao Nakamura, Yoshie Shimoyama, Yoshiki Hirooka, Mitsuhiro Fujishiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-10-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-21178-4