Endoscopic Ultrasound Fine Needle Aspiration
The importance of endoscopic ultrasound fine needle aspiration in the diagnosis of solid pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas: two case reports
... defined. Endoscopic ultrasound offers a key anatomical advantage in accessing the pancreas and endoscopic ultrasound fine-needle aspiration has become the gold standard ...
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Endoscopic Ultrasound Guided Drainage of Peri-Rectal Collections: A Salvage Approach
... Endoscopic ultrasound-fine needle aspiration techniques in the treatment of pelvic abscesses, even as a salvage therapy, where other approaches ...
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Needle Fracture during Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration of Suspicious Thoracic Lymph Nodes
... Endoscopic ultrasound fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) is used to make a cytopathologic diagnosis of suspicious lesions located around the gastrointestinal ...
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Anaplastic carcinoma of the pancreas diagnosed by endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration: a case report and review of the literature
... aggressiveness. Endoscopic ultrasonography and endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine- needle aspiration are useful techniques for the diagnosis of pancreatic tumors with high ...
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Diagnosis of pancreatic cystic lymphangioma in an 11-year-old boy with endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration: A case report
... went to a different hospital. During that period, several tests have been performed to investigate the possible etiology of PLE. To rule out lymphatic system disorders, two lab tests, including lymphoscintigraphy and ...
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Pancreatic metastases from ocular malignant melanoma: the use of endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration to establish a definitive cytologic diagnosis: a case report
... Studies have reported a sensitivity of 87–100 % using endoscopic ultrasound in detecting solid pan- creatic lesions. Also, provides a high negative predict- ive value in ruling out pancreatic masses in the ...
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Role of endoscopic ultrasound in diagnosis and management of hepatocellular carcinoma
... stages. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) has emerged as an important diagnostic tool for the diagnostic evaluation, staging, and treatment of gastrointestinal tract ...EUS-guided fine needle ...
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Gallbladder small cell carcinoma: a case report and literature review
... performed, endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration of enlarged lymph nodes resulted in a diagnosis of small cell carcinoma or ...
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Accuracy of endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration in the suspicion of pancreatic metastases
... an ultrasound unit EUB 515 (Mitsubishi, Conshockon, Philadelphia), Olympus UCT-160 OL5 (Olympus Optical ...an ultrasound unit UC-60 (Suzy-Olympus Optical ...
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Preoperative Diagnosis of Upper Gastrointestinal Leiomyoma by Endoscopic Ultrasound-guided Fine Needle Aspiration
... Since all these tumors have submucosal location in the gastrointestinal wall, accurate diagnosis with using of a conventional endoscopic study is not possible. Since the endosonography has begun to be used as a ...
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Gemcitabine sensitivity-related mRNA expression in endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy of unresectable pancreatic cancer
... Focused DNA array (FDA), a DNA microarray restricted to tens to hundreds of well-known genes, is an ideal tool for comprehensive analysis of GEM sensitivity-related genes, as it has the ability to simultaneous measure ...
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Prospective validation of microRNA signatures for detecting pancreatic malignant transformation in endoscopic-ultrasound guided fine-needle aspiration biopsies
... Computer tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are unable to accurately distinguish between benign and malignant pancreatic cystic lesions [4] and therefore the majority of patients undergo an ...
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Comparing endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) guided fine needle aspiration (FNA) versus fine needle biopsy (FNB) in the diagnosis of solid lesions: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... enhanced flexibility, especially for core tissue collection. Results from a multicenter study on EUS-FNB showed that, overall, the operations were completed in 98.24 % patients, the histological specimens were adequate ...
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Comparison of modified wet suction technique and dry suction technique in endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration (EUS FNA) for solid lesions: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... a needle con- trolled under negative pressure, usually applied with a 10 ml syringe; the advantage of negative pressure is an in- crease in ...the needle after the stylet is removed with an air-filled ...
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Multicentric solid pseudopapillary neoplasms of the pancreas diagnosed by endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration: a case report
... Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) showed two indis- tinct and heterogeneous echo-poor masses (Fig. 2). The patient subsequently underwent EUS-FNA for each mass. On cytological analyses, the tumors were found to be ...
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Needle tract seeding following endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration for pancreatic cancer: a report of two cases
... modular pancreatosplenectomy procedure posterior (RAMPs posterior) [21]. During surgery, we noticed a small hard mass in the posterior gastric wall (Fig. 4a), for which we performed partial gastrectomy (Fig. 4b). The ...
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A solid pseudopapillary neoplasm without cysts that occurred in a patient diagnosed by endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration: a case report
... resonance imaging (MRI) revealed low signal intensity in the tail of the pancreas, whereas T2-weighted MRI showed high signal intensity. Diffusion MRI showed high signal intensity. Our EUS (GF-UM 2000; Olympus Co, Tokyo, ...
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The Experience with Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology in the Management of Palpable Breast Lumps in the University Hospital Kuala Lumpur
... The Experience with Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology in the Management of Palpable Breast Lumps in the University Hospital Kuala Lumpur ORIGINAL ARTICLE The Experience with Fine Needle Aspiration Cytol[.] ...
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Fine needle aspiration cytology of lymph nodes in breast cancer follow-up is a feasible alternative to watchful waiting and to histology
... axillary lymph nodes in primary breast cancer resulted in a median sensitivity of 61.4 % (interquartile range 51.2– 79.4 %) and a median specificity of 82 % (interquartile range 76.9–89 %) [32]. In a subset of 1733 ...
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Ultrasonographic and fine needle aspiration cytology correlation of thyroid gland lesions: a study of 100 cases
... patient. Ultrasound is the gold standard for assessing the morphological structure of the gland along with the gland ...scale ultrasound in the evaluation of thyroid ...
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