Endoscopic-Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration and the Role of the Cytopathologist in Solid Pancreatic Lesion Diagnosis

Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is the most sensitive imaging modality for solid pancreatic lesions. The specificity, however, is low (about 75%). It can be increased to 100% with an accuracy of 95% by the addition of fine-needle aspiration (FNA). Cytopathology plays an important role. The final diagnos...

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Hauptverfasser: Iqbal, Shahzad, Friedel, David, Gupta, Mala, Ogden, Lorna, Stavropoulos, Stavros N.
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3362237/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22666633
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/317167
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