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EUS-FNA

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EUS-FNAEndoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy


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3) Powis and Chang (18) assert that EUS-FNA represents a cost-effective tool in the management of all patients with pancreatic tumors through its ability to image and sample small pancreatic lesions (<20 mm), to accurately and preoperatively stage pancreatic cancers (by imaging the neurovascular axis and by imaging and sampling peripancreatic lymph nodes), and to potentially deliver palliative celiac neurolysis.
8,21-24) In a study of 233 patients performed at our institution, EUS-FNA had a specificity of 100%, but the sensitivity was only 91% because of sampling error.
16) Other centers report even higher rates of malignancy diagnosis when EUS-FNA is used.
 
 
 
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